This coming Wednesday communities and organizations across the state will celebrate Earth Day. They'll gather and organize to raise awareness about environmental issues through work, music, food, and art. We're lucky ... Read more
Did you catch the last installment of FIVE IN 5? We’re back with round four—60 second portraits of Vermont’s studio furniture makers and members of our Guild. The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers is an ... Read more
The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers is an association of thirty master craftsmen (and women) working in studios across Vermont. Most of our members have been designing and making custom furniture for decades, so ... Read more
Charles Shackleton and Miranda Thomas met in art school in 1979. Somehow, as life and luck would have it, they reconnected not in England but in Vermont. The romance rekindled, they married and started a family. They ... Read more
The Vermont Furniture Makers Guild is an association of master level craftsmen dedicated to the common pursuits of quality craftsmanship, design excellence, and pursuit of artistic vision. Our collective body of work ... Read more
The tail of Rutland County bends southeast where the Green Mountain and Taconic ranges come together to form what’s called the ‘Valley of Vermont.’ Historic Routes 7 & 7A run its length from Brandon to ... Read more
The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers membership is scattered from corner to corner across the breadth and stretch of the Green Mountains. Our furniture shops dapple the map… from the picturesque villages of southern ... Read more
Signs of spring in Vermont… New lambs on the farm, geese settling in at the pond, back roads thawing, turning to mud. Back in February with wind whipping and snow flying, we posted about our first meeting of the ... Read more
In medieval days, like-minded craftsmen of a particular trade gathered together to form guilds. The guilds defined standards of quality and price for a particular handmade product. Members shared information and ... Read more
It’s true, we spend roughly a third of our lives in bed. Experts encourage us to treat our bedrooms as sacred spaces reserved only for sleep. But many of us are guilty of retreating there from time to time with our ... Read more
