Photos for the AWR competition

[Derek Cohen]

Each year the Australian Wood Review Magazine holds a National and International furniture competition, "Maker of the Year". I entered once, a few years ago, and I think they lost my entry as I did not get in the top 100. I think that they were genuinely racked with guilt over this, as they did not reply to my demands for a recount!

Faced with the opportunity to embarrass them once again, I decided to enter my pair of nightstands. No one in this world is going to take them as serious furniture - that's my story for another failure to place, and I'm sticking to it!! We'll see.

In seriousness, it is just fun to be a part of something like this. (And, no, I do not fancy my chances).

Here are the photos I entered ... only these are much lower definition to fit on the website (these average 130 Kb and the entries were around the 3 Mb range). And don't hassle me about the background or lighting - my handheld iPhone 11 rules!











Regards from Perth

Derek

[Jim Koepke]

Good luck with the judges Derek.

It is impossible to know what might appeal to the those doing the judging.

Often a person's sentiments are built on nonsense and it is difficult to get them to see reality.

jtk

[Christopher Charles]

Derek,

The stands look great with fine MCM lines and many of your own touches. Best of luck with the show!

[Jim Ritter]

I don’t care what the judges think, I like them.
Jim

[Mike King]

They are very nice. Do the judges give feedback? That would be potentially quite useful. I know Michael Fortune was a judge a couple of times. And Adrian Ferrazzutti won last year in his category. If my work was worthy of critique by either of them I'd be very honored....