Nicole Gordon – Page 2 – Hawk Wind Creations

Carved Stone and Cast Detail in Older District Houses

The keystone over the door had lost its face. Not cracked — gone, weathered back about an inch and a

Somebody asked for a quote on one stool, then on six of the same stool, and was annoyed that six

There were four different cornice profiles on one building, and the owner wanted to know which was the original. Three

There is a drawer in the shop that holds two sample joints. One is a set of through dovetails cut

A couple came in certain they wanted walnut for a dining table, and left having chosen ash, which nobody expected

The drawing said the alcove would be 96 in wide. When I turned up to install, it was 94 3/4

A demolition contractor once offered me a truckload of joists out of a 1890s mill building — Douglas fir, 3

The first resin floor I specified failed in eleven months, and it failed for a reason that had nothing to

Around the eightieth commission I started keeping a single page per job: what was quoted, what it actually took, and

Twenty-two panels, one wall, and a client who had seen a photograph of a library in which the figure ran