{"id":56,"date":"2010-08-25T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-08-25T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:02:43","slug":"useful-and-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Useful and attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building furniture that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional fulfils both my artistic and practical desires.<!--more-->I was trained using traditional furniture making techniques. Techniques that have withstood the test of time, when I make a piece of furniture I consider that I am making antiques of the future. Although most of my furniture has an element of contemporary design, the construction methods are the same as those used for centuries. I take pride in the fact that I am carrying on a tradition that is requires time and patients. I have been involved in several Melbourne Fringe Furniture Exhibitions, The Royal Melbourne Show, and group exhibitions at The Wharf Gallery which has allowed me to showcase my furniture to a wider audience<a href=\"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61\" title=\"image5\" src=\"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image52.jpg\" alt=\"Inspired by a seed pod\" width=\"209\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building furniture that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional fulfils both my artistic and practical desires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-furniture","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfellow.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}