Garry Knox Bennett
Encyclopedia
Garry Knox Bennett is an American
woodworker, furniture
maker, metalworker and artist
, known for his whimsical, inventive and unconventional uses of materials and designs in his work. His long-established workshop and studio is in Oakland, California
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
woodworker, furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
maker, metalworker and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, known for his whimsical, inventive and unconventional uses of materials and designs in his work. His long-established workshop and studio is in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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External links
- Made in Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett (Oakland Museum of California)
- Garry Knox Bennett Furniture - Bennett's website