Lost Art Woodworks

Durham-based Brian Bortz crafts art deco-ish household effects with curvy, contrasting-tone designs and lots of prominently exposed grains, including quilted makore, wenge & cherry wood liquor cabinets (w/ slide-out mixing trays) and zebrawood or bloodwood "buffet" cabinets with ironing board-like countertops and hidden doors/drawers, all of which're given a "perfectly smooth, hand-rubbed finish", which at the end of the day, is all any wood wants.