cabinetmaker

“I was nosey, and from school, I would stop at the cabinetmaker’s and stand by the door and sometimes he invited me in and put a tool in my hand,” Teti said.

Before the pieces are sent from Denmark to New York in shipping containers, they are stored in a barn owned by Balderskilde’s older brother, a cabinetmaker who taught him how to restore furniture.

Mr. Williams was a 36-year-old Vietnam War veteran and cabinetmaker in 1984 when Army officials announced that nerve agent would be burned at the Blue Grass depot.

To make all of this work, you will probably need to hire an experienced cabinetmaker to figure out the specific slides and drawer dimensions, and to install the parts.

Now apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, she touches wood only to craft it into useful items — “Objects as objects. Nothing more.”