Mark Murphy shows us his miniature furniture
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Miniaturist Mark Murphy shows us his miniature 1/12th scale furniture
Miniaturist Mark Murphy shows us his miniature 1/12th scale furniture made in collaboration with Annelle Ferguson, Lee-Ann Wessel, Mary Grady O'Brien, and Pat Richards. Bonus video from the MINIATURES episode, now streaming on the PBS App, pbs.org/craftinamerica, and craftinamerica.org. PBS broadcast premiere December 29, 2023 (check local listings).
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Mark Murphy shows us his miniature furniture
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Miniaturist Mark Murphy shows us his miniature 1/12th scale furniture made in collaboration with Annelle Ferguson, Lee-Ann Wessel, Mary Grady O'Brien, and Pat Richards. Bonus video from the MINIATURES episode, now streaming on the PBS App, pbs.org/craftinamerica, and craftinamerica.org. PBS broadcast premiere December 29, 2023 (check local listings).
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo this is a game table that I did with Annelle Ferguson.
This is a needle point process on the top of this table.
The game table itself has all these recesses.
There's a large one in the center to set the needle point into but all these round parts on the corners are for the candlesticks and these little oval shapes along the edges are to hold chips for playing games.
This is an example of one of my Pennsylvania cupboards which I do a lot of Pennsylvania cupboards 'cause I really love them and all the ceramics in there are Delftware pieces done by Lee-Ann Wessel.
This is a little bench seat.
Mary O'Brien painted the decoration on it and then Pat Richards did the French knotting.
With needle point you just bring it up and bring it down.
With French knotting, you tie a little knot as you're bringing it down so it makes a little bit more of a nub on the surface so it's not as flat is needle point.
Miniatures is basically like doing a sculpture of the original piece.
I do tour a lot of older homes and different museums and I do look at a lot of objects and interiors.
This piece, the original full size piece is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
It's a William and Mary Highboy and I was really working from photographs to actually make the piece but then when I went to the museum after I made it the gallery was closed so I kept going up to different docents around the museum and just saying Can I?
Can I?
Is there no way I can get into this?
So finally somebody took me up to the gallery and opened it for me and let me go in and really examine it.
I was quite pleased that it felt right to me, you know, you know That's what, I go for the feeling in the piece more than anything.
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