“Roy McMakin: When Is a Chair Not a Chair” (Skira ... yet bedevils the eye. A bed has only half a footboard; a chest has different size knobs on each drawer, which turns opening the drawers ...

Roy McMakin is not easy to categorise ... the master bedroom features an imposing four-poster bed that is pulled away from the walls so that it acts as both sculpture and functional furniture. At its ...

The plain four-poster bed borders on dullness ... These appealing and unobtrusive pieces are the handiwork of Roy McMakin, a California artist and furniture maker who has managed to distill ...

‘The thing about Roy is that we trust him a 1,000 per cent,’ says Mary ... Mary’s office space is divided from the couple’s McMakin-designed bed, painted teal, while openings in the partition keep the ...

The plain four-poster bed borders on dullness ... These appealing and unobtrusive pieces are the handiwork of Roy McMakin, a California artist and furniture maker who has managed to distill ...

MAKING MY WAY through Roy McMakin’s new exhibit at the Henry, I experienced a flash of recognition at the banal object before me: a white, five-panel door with no knob. As someone who has ...

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?” ...

Seattle's Roy McMakin draws heads that are full of houses. All his life, he has been obsessed with floor plans. The cozy structures he made as a child worried his father. "The word 'sissy' came up ...

“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 ...

Well, that was then. Roy McMakin is a different kind of artist. A rare blend of a craftsman and a conceptualist, Seattle-based McMakin is much in demand as a designer of furniture and buildings as ...

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 ...