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By Meredith Gorfein
Rappahannock News Writer
How does a work of art happen? In this case and perhaps in all cases it grew.
It began with the leg of a dining room table and a challenge. The dining room table had been designed and built by Peter Kramer Cabinetmaker and the challenge came from Gregory and Nancy Eamheart who became the owners of the table when they bought the Metten’s home on Tiger Valley Road a little over a year ago.
The previous owners had used one of the large first floor rooms as an exercise studio. The now empty sunlit room seemed like the perfect place for a pool table (both the Eamheart’s enjoy pool and Mr. Eamheart recently muttered something about visions of being a “pool shark”).
The leg, called a “wishbone” leg, with its inverted curves, soft and sharp edges, became the beginning of the design challenge for Peter Kramer and his crew of two, Sam Dwyer and Michael Saulnier. Even finding the right materials would prove to be a challenge. The legs had to be Tiger Maple and the sides and rails of Quilted Maple. The entire process took well over a year from the challenge to the first break of the balls.
The Earnhearts first became admirers of Peter Kramer’s work through a Windsor chair in Elaine Kramer’s shop, Talk of the Town. They had been looking for a Windsor chair for some time, and seeing and sitting lead eventually to the greatest design, engineering and building challenge presented to Mr. Kramer and his craftsmen to date.
Part of the challenge was to create a pool table in complete harmony with the house. The pool table needed to belong in this elegantly designed open house as flawlessly as the kitchen, staircase, walls and windows. It also had to fit with Kramer’s other pieces of furniture in the house, and it had to function as a pool table.
With some appreciation for the enormity of the challenge, Peter Kramer and his crew accepted and began on a truly collaborative effort.
The building begins
Peter Kramer is willing to take the credit for the design, planning, organizing and finding and purchasing of the materials. He gives full credit and appreciation to Sam Dwyer for the crafting of this work and to Michael Saulnier’s finishing which made the table come alive.
Sam Dwyer who has been with Mr. Kramer for 17 years was intimidated at first, and getting educated on pool table standards was the most challenging part of the project for
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