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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Though cabinetmaker Peter Kramer will open an exhibition Saturday celebrating his 20th anniversary, the master craftsman’s mind is still looking toward the design of his next piece.
His exhibit, “Recent Thoughts — New Furniture Design,” will include a collection of some 50 pieces “that explore some original contemporary concepts of color, carving, line, assemblage and function and their effect on pieces of traditional design.”
Walking through the Kramer and Eiland Woodworking shop last week, as the firm’s craftsmen put the finishing touches on several of the pieces for the show, his excitement was obvious as he showed off some of the concepts referred to in the exhibition invitation. “Caged legs” and “captured knees” became less mysterious when seen as part of a table or dresser.
And in the basement showroom, where many of the pieces will be on display, Mr. Kramer explained how his philosophy of design evolved from those first days as a craftsman in a workshop he set up in his mother’s basement in suburban New Jersey.
He began working with wood as a teenager, watching one of his Sunday School teachers who made furniture in his garage workshop. His brother-in-law had some power tools, and encouraged the young man’s interest in woodworking as well.
“Those years in my brother-in-law’s shop developed an interest that that’s what I wanted to do with my life,” he recalled. But at that time, there were no schools which taught aspiring craftsmen.
And, since Mr. Kramer was college-bound, he attended Rutgers and received a degree in marketing — even as he realized, “all I wanted to do was to make furniture.”
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