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By Sallie Morgan Special to the Rappahannock News
On Friday, May 10 at 8 p.m. the RAAC Library Series will host an evening with furniture designer/craftsman Peter Kramer, who has been living and working in Rappahannock County for 30 years, and whose work is well known across the country.
“I push and stretch and strain some of the usual concepts of furniture pretty far,” says Kramer, who thinks of himself as an artist in wood. His work has been described as a nappy marriage of tradition arid ingenious innovation, and his collection ranges from deceptively delicate pieces-like his Windsor chairs and benches, to bold, massive, artfully carved and painted armoires, hqad boards and free-standing screens.
From hand-planed wood to hand-rubbed finish, Peter Kramer’s furniture is made in the tradition of 18th century cabinetmakers who developed and defined American furniture. His designs enhance tl^ose definitions, building upon rather than emulating them. “My pieces have an aged quality because I make them by hand. They have that essence but so much of the line of my work is contemporary,” he explains. *- Kramer has been designing apd making furniture since he was a teenager. “From the time I was a kid,. I always
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