Jake Cress - Cabinetmaker



Home "The Decorator" Animated Furniture Traditional Furniture Miniature Furniture About Jake Cress Exhibitions and Publications Contact Us A Cabinetmaker's Life The Mill The Casket Refinishing Antiques Warped! Tongue-and-Groove and Tongue and Cheek, by Paul Fitzgerald Meet Jake, a 'nonartist' who makes art, by Joanne Poindexter The Cabinetmaker's Wife Loving Your Furniture Loving Your Furniture II Rings, Dents, and Surface Scratches "Rat Leg Table" walnut or mahogany $2,700 "Crippled Table" walnut and cherry $1,875 "Hickory Dickory Clock" SOLD Mark Scala, Director of the Nashville Museum of Art, described Hickory Dickory Clock as follows: Jacob Cress uses traditional woodworking techniques in the creation of fabulous furniture sculptures. In this piece, a dignified grandfather clock comes alive, his face grimacing as he uses the pendulum bob to smash an annoying mouse trying to run up the clock's cabinet. The other mouse was too quick for the clock's outstretched foot.	In a world where furniture makers call themselves artists, Jake pokes fun by building pieces that are designed to make you laugh. He also makes "normal" pieces of almost any style, a few of which are shown here. Click a photograph to see more detail.
	"Self-Portrait" walnut $17,500	"Alladin's Mouse" mahogany - 54" L X 19" D X 32" H $12,000 "Alladin's Mouse"
	"Hickory Dickory Clock" Ceramic face by Dreama Kattenbraker, Fincastle, VA $12,000 "Peel Here" mahogany - 17 1/2" X 17 1/2" X 24" $2,400	"Oops" mahogany, #10 of 10 price on request "How to Build Furniture" walnut - Queen Anne legs $1,675 "How to Build Furniture" cherry - ball and claw legs $2,400