Patrick owns a successful restoration and furniture making company Antique Refinishers in San Diego. In 2000, he opened the American School of French Marquetry to share the expertise he gained in Paris at the Ecole Boulle with fellow American woodworkers. He has long been a champion of the artisan philosophy of David Pye.
In this thoroughly mechanized age, what is the point of craft? Does it make any sense to work with hand tools when machines can do the same job faster, and in many cases better? What visual richness do we lose by embracing a mass-produced world?" "The Nature and Art of Workmanship explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, David Pye proposes a new theory of making based on the concepts of 'workmanship of risk' and 'workmanship of certainty'.