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Aspen Magazine

Holiday 2003/04

Home & Lifestyle | A furniture maker finds inspiration in nature and simplicity in design­–with a hint of Japanese tradition thrown in…

Mu Magazine

1998 issue 02

Brad Reed Nelson is down with furnishing martians and earthlings alike. Concentrating primarily on furniture as art object, or vice versa, Nelson produces future-forward works of function for every day display...

American Craft

Feb/March 2001

Stools…Opening reception at the Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

Phoenix Home and Garden

November 1999

Sitting Pretty | Casual furnishings for outdoor living

Create the ideal outdoor environment with comfortable easy-to-care-for furnishings. Take load off your feet and sit down in style…

City AZ

April 1990

After seeing a void in the patio furniture market, designer and sculptor Brad Nelson and sculptor Garner Britt set out to create beautiful and functional outdoor furniture...

Scratching The Surface
Art and Content in Contemporary Wood

Michael Hosaluk
Guild Publishing

“My furniture is a stylized remix of the qualities I find alluring in today’s pop culture”

Wood Art Today
Furniture, Vessels, Sculpture

Dona Z. Meilach
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

Poolside Paradise on a Pedestal

The ExecuGlide Line

Promotional Brochure

The ExecuGlide Line, designed for outdoor use, functions as well indoors…Handmade in steel finished with powder coat and topped with select hardwoods, ExecuGlide is built to withstand the seasons.

Java

February 1998
Here and Now | High Speed Furniture

Co-opting the visual language of rave culture to promote his exhibition of sculptural furniture Brad Reed Nelson creates objects that look like a cross between a space probe and a sex toy…

Woodworker West

May-June 1998

On Exhibit | Neither Here Nor There Nor Prickly Pear
BOARD Designs by Brad Reed Nelson • 1949 Dolores Way Carbondale, CO 81623 • Telephone 970.963.1701