Los Angeles Times Tuesday March 18, 2003 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 36 words Type of Material: Correction Hugh Davies -- A profile of artist-designer Roy McMakin ...

See About archive blog posts. In the title of his forthcoming monograph, artist Roy McMakin poses a question: “When Is a Chair Not a Chair?” Over a 25-plus-year career (including a stint ...

At a recent dinner, artist Roy McMakin, seated at a large table, casually asked the person next to him what seemed like an innocuous question: “I said, like, what’s your favorite color?” ...

art-book publisher Lisa Eisner, who is McMakin's friend, described what she knew about his youth: "While everyone else was making their Barbie dolls have sex with GI Joe, Roy was buying furniture ...

Playing the role of neat freak Felix Ungar in our contemporary incarnation is master craftsman Roy McMakin--artist, furniture designer and architect, whose impeccable sense of formal restraint and ...

“I became interested in the chest of drawers at an early age,” says Roy McMakin, a 54-year-old Seattle-based artist whose furniture bridges the gap between art and design. “I imprinted on ...

Seattle's Roy McMakin found an old green chest in a ... McMakin's 2003 exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, McMakin is a "master craftsman with the heart of a conceptualist." ...

Artist Roy McMakin was recently at some “big event” in New Orleans when someone asked him where he was from. “I was talking to some guy from London, and he’s like this sophisticated ...

They are all customized and unique Roy McMakin (born 1956) is a designer, architect, and furniture maker. His success stems from his ability to bridge the gap, between art and design. From whimsical ...

According to old notions of portraiture, an artist’s job is to capture the character of a person in a painted image. Well, that was then. Roy McMakin is a different kind of artist. A rare blend ...