Doug Turner

I started building furniture around 1996, while I was a student at The Atlanta College of Art. We were given a woodworking intro class so that we could build canvas stretchers and frames instead of buying them. I found that I loved woodworking, and used the school shop a lot after that lesson. I worked on simple projects I could teach myself to build until I went to visit my uncle in New Jersey. At the time, he owned a custom furniture & millwork shop. He's a pretty blunt guy. He told me to quit playing around. If I really wanted to learn, I'd need to get a job in a real shop. I returned to Georgia, graduated from college and went to work in a high-end furniture shop here in Atlanta, which is now closed. It was an interesting experience - I learned as much about what not to do as what to do. The quality of the furniture we produced was very high, but the business administration was, awful if I'm being honest. In progress. I am very busy making furniture.