Gary Rogowski is a furniture maker, designer, teacher and author. Since 1974 he has built public and private furniture commissions for clients and galleries nationwide. He is a former contributing editor to 'Fine Woodworking Magazine' and has written hundred of articles and several books, including the bestselling 'Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery'. He is also a playwright, novelist, and essayist. Rogowski has taught and lectured throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany. In 2015, he gave the first-ever lecture in English at the École Boulle in Paris. Rogowski is the founded and director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio: A School for Woodworkers, in Portland, Oregon. In 2015 he founded a nonprofit organization, Woodworking Ideas Northwest to mentor high school students at the bench.
