Robert Ortiz Studios Blog

For the first eight years that I was a furniture maker, I made other people’s ideas and copied designs that were given to me to make.  Around 1994 I made the coffee table with a natural edge wooden top for a dear client, may she rest in piece.  She wanted something original and something that I [...]

My uncle Nick, God rest his soul, was a good businessman and an artist at heart.  When I became a furniture maker he would always tell me: “you have to think big.”  So I’d like to think that he might be smiling down on me with my latest…”let’s try this” idea.  Dear Friends,      I’ve [...]