Useful Art & DesignUseful Art & Designby Todd Segal

• Custom furniture and artwork solutions for home and/or office

• Designs to meet each person’s unique taste, from rustic, to colonial, modern and contemporary

• Cabinets, tables, shelving, aquarium stands and installation, children’s designs

• Built-to-fit: Most pieces can be customized for space/area limitations

• Custom art work, wall murals, painted and stained finishes.

Meet the ArtistTodd is an artist and craftsman, whose unique attention to detail and eye for design come from a lifetime of experience in the fine arts and practical knowledge from being a builder and furniture maker. It all started as a young boy growing up in Los Angeles painting side by side with his Grandfather, a professional designer and painter. “We spent our weekends working on the easel with paints and building projects out of wood. He was my idol, my inspiration, and sometimes my most harshest of critics.” Todd’s life was also engulfed with art during his school years, earning him two of the highest fine arts achievement awards for each level of study. At the early age of 13, his work was exhibited at the Los Angeles Music Center, where he was even offered 50 dollars for one of his pastel drawings. “It felt more like 50 thousand at that time. I was very flattered, but ended up giving the piece to my father.” At the age of twenty, Todd recalls a job he had building the whole interior of a prestigious gallery in Venice, California.

All cabinets were to have special paint applications and to incorporate large fish tanks in them. This was a job that would later gain him a reputation in form, function and unusual design. Todd’s rigorous woodworking abilities began with chairs made completely by hand on a foot powered lathe and period cabinetry, then graduated to building large timber frame barns and animal shelters, to restoring old houses. “I felt limited on the canvas and wanted to put my creativity to more practical applications with my woodwork. Form and function is what it’s all about.” Todd finally set the precedent with the help of his wife in his new business Useful Art and Design. “After years of working on a limited basis and schedule, I’m finally putting my applications of artistic design and straight forward building to work full time. The problem with much of the work done today is that it’s built to conform to too many rules. I want to use the rules and go beyond them, but not be dictated by them.”

HANDCRAFTED/PAINTED CABINETRY

$950.00

PLACES FOR YOUR STUFF

$1900.00

$750.00

RUSTIC CHARM

Custom Aquarium Stands

$550.00

Tables

$1100.00

$450.00

Kitchen/Bath Ideas

Pretty and Practical

$1500.00 (Queen)

Kid’s Stuff

Thank You!

Thank you for taking the time and interest to view our presentation. Please remember that the furniture designs shown are just a sampling of those possible. If you don't see what you're looking for we can custom make it for you. A simple sketch or picture or even just a description of the design you have in mind is usually all that is needed to work from. Because our furniture pieces are built to order, pricing is set on a “per piece” basis. We are happy to give free estimates in advance, taking into consideration the cost for materials, time and degree of artwork/customization. If you would like an estimate on custom furniture please e-mail us a description, sketch or photo of what you are looking for.

Useful Art & DesignP.O. Box 382

Becket, MA 01223(413) 623-6425

E-Mail: TSegal@hughes.net