Roy McMakin is not easy to categorise ... after much research, purchased a desk for $65. As it turns out, the young boy had a good eye: the drop-front desk he purchased was by Gustav Stickley.

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?” ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the 1980s L.A. art scene that included David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, Roy McMakin pursued a singular vision: creating functional sculpture based on home furnishings, decorated with a ...

Seattle's Roy McMakin found an old green chest in a Fremont furniture store. With no practical reason to buy it, he was forced to acknowledge the romance of the moment. He was in love with the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Artist Roy McMakin wants to know what your favorite color is and why. The acclaimed artist and UCSD grad will be in La Jolla this weekend constructing a mural using the favorite colors of passers-by.