Dean Ludwig

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Dean Ludwig is a full-time, professional furnituremaker who owns and operates a studio near Toledo, Ohio. Dean s work has received local, national, and international recognition. His work in custom-designed church furnishings received the prestigious 2000 Design Award from the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture, and was featured in both Woodwork and Faith and Form magazines. Dean also designs and constructs furniture for private residences and for businesses. Dean tries to build at least a handful of rocking chairs every year. He enjoys rocking chairs for their complexity and for their symbolic value. Rocking chairs, suggests Dean, symbolize quiet and pause and reflection in a world that is far too hurried. Dean s rocking chairs are in the Maloof tradition but with noticeable modifications in appearance and feel that he has incorporated over time. My rockers clearly pay tribute to the man I consider to be the greatest woodworker of the 20th century, Sam Maloof; but my rockers also continue to evolve their own identity. They will probably continue to evolve for the rest of my life. Dean Ludwig has been designing and building in wood since he was a young child, but his early adult life took him in different directions. In addition to earning an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of Business, Dean spent twelve years in studies that would have led to his ordination as a Catholic priest in the religious order known as the Jesuits. Dean left the religious...

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