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 operating Domestic Furniture on ...

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 at garage sales and reworking it ...

“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 ...

conning unsuspecting art patrons into paying good money to look at the furniture they can easily find in the living rooms of River City. “Roy McMakin: A Door Meant as Adornment” continues at ...

Roy McMakin has been making seemingly ordinary furniture since 1987. In all that time, the Seattle-based artist/designer has consistently tinkered with familiar furniture archetypes - like sofas and ...

Roy McMakin is not easy to categorise ... McMakin challenges perceptions of what one expects from a piece of furniture. As an art student in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he used furniture and ...

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.

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 ...

McMakin’s thoughtful installation, Roy McMakin: A Table (September 29 ... The platform makes the table art rather than furniture, “a sculpture,” as the title points out.