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 [...]

I’m writing this e-newsletter with a certain amount of urgency realizing that we are all living in a world that is much more insecure and volatile than we thought it to be just a few months ago. Things here at the shop, as in so many other places, have slowed as never before in the [...]