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Hawiian Curly Koa Wood Coffee Table 1998 #5 by Paul Ayoob
$4,695
£3,584.61
€4,141.99
CA$6,590.89
A$7,346.23
CHF 3,854.32
MX$89,709.51
NOK 48,804.04
SEK 46,127.24
DKK 30,913.45
About the Item
Koa wood coffee table by Paul Ayoob. Signed on verso "Paul Ayoob 1998 #5. One of his first custom pieces made professionally as a furniture maker. Fitted and pieced natural Hawiian Koa Wood. The original finish has not faded after 27 years, as the artist states: "A finish of a 3 part mixture over a 17 day period that is hand applied allows it to be used for many years and remain beautiful. The finish will never chip, peel, crack or flake." Dimensions: 49"L x 25"W x 16.5"H.
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Title: PRECISION CRAFTSMAN
Date: January 10, 2003
If you want to know Paul Ayoob, you need only to look at the backside of the cabinet he's building. The backside that no one will ever see once the piece is installed.
Go ahead. Crawl under one of his tables. Turn one of his chairs upside down.''There aren't many people who can show the backs of their furniture,'' Ayoob says with justifiable pride.
But the pieces Ayoob crafts are so seamlessly constructed and so much a product of the woodworker's attention to detail that the backs and undersides and insides indeed look just as good as the parts his clients will see every day.
''He's not just Type A,'' says his wife, Teresa Biagini. ''He's a Type AAA. But that's what makes him so good at woodwork. He's detail-oriented. He has such a high standard for himself.''
For the past quarter-century, Ayoob has put his attention to detail to use in police work. At 48, he's three years from retirement as a San Jose police officer. Police work is a daily dance with life's seamy underside, a grueling, dangerous business that can wring the energy and hope out of a person. So how has Ayoob coped? By finding a pursuit that demands exacting precision and focus, of course.
''This is my calling,'' he says of woodworking and making furniture. ''It is a peaceful interlude to my daily life. It is not just an escape. I think about it all the time. I have opted now for the peaceful side of life.''
In just a few short years, Ayoob has developed such a following, simply through referrals, that he says he has enough orders to keep him busy for two years. Though he tries, he hastens to add, to fit people into his schedule. His pieces range in price from about $2,000 to the high five figures, and his style has evolved to one he calls ''a refined but acceptable elegance.'' Of his pieces, he says, ''Their style will not wither away as the years go by.''
Ayoob, meticulous in trim jeans, a black polo shirt and boots, explains how he got his start as he shows a guest through the equally meticulous design studio he constructed behind his South Bay home. (He builds his pieces in a rented space in San Mateo County.) He pulls out life-size blueprints of a table he'll build; he works from life-size prints on each piece of furniture.
Gains knowledge
He sold his first commissioned piece, an entry table, in 1998. When he first tried his hand at woodworking, about seven years ago, he says, ''I didn't even know how to hammer in a nail. The first thing I built was a little rolling cabinet out of plywood. I was hammering nails through the other side, and everyone was laughing.''
Ayoob has learned much, he says, from two mentors, Jim Allen of Saratoga and David Weeks of Scotts Valley.
Al Gipson, owner of a San Jose personnel staffing agency, bought the ebony and curly maple entrance table.
''Paul was trained by old-world craftsmen. And customer care and quality was part of the package he inherited from them,'' says Gipson, who plans to commission Ayoob to make some cabinetry for a home he is building. ''I think, more than anything, it is the quality of workmanship, the detailing. He is so meticulous. He won't let you see glue seams or screws sticking out.
''He'd drive me crazy if we were roommates.''
Spousal support
Allowing Ayoob his passion has taken some forbearance on the part of his wife. The couple filled in a swimming pool so he could construct his design studio. But Biagini is proud of how her husband has blossomed.
''I love to see him develop that artistic side, that creative side in himself,'' says Biagini, a San Jose attorney. ''It's really kind of exciting to see that take seed and grow in a person.''
And the Ayoob-Biagini home benefits as well, right? Well, not exactly. When Ayoob started woodworking, he made a series of coffee tables. Customers snapped them up at a yard sale. The one that cracked just a bit? That landed in the couple's home, as do the prototypes and objects that don't meet his exacting standards. ''You know that old story about the cobbler's children having no shoes?'' says Biagini.
What she can track, looking at her husband's work over the last few years, is a change in his approach. In the beginning, she says, ''everything had carvings and hinges.''
''As he has gone along, I think he's discovered the beauty of simplicity,'' she says.
These days, Ayoob talks passionately about the beauty of the wood. The Honduran rosewood. The coco bolo. Ebony accents. Curly maple.
And he talks about pleasing his clients, saying, ''I'm one of very few woodworkers who will design and make just what people want.'' He'll also try to work within a person's budget, constructing pieces that cost less than $2,000 if it's reasonable to do so.
He spends from 40 to 250 hours on each piece and works on one piece or for one client at a time.
Among the more intriguing pieces he has constructed are an oversize arts-and-crafts-style chair and ottoman that sold for five figures.
Ayoob signs and dates each piece he makes. But he puts a little more into the cabinets, tables and the like as well.
''A piece of my heart leaves with every darn piece I make,'' he says.
- Creator:Paul Ayoob (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)Depth: 25 in (63.5 cm)
- Style:American Craftsman (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1990-1999
- Date of Manufacture:1998
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. some minor blemishes to wood.
- Seller Location:Soquel, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: JT-j41451stDibs: LU121524524043
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