Australian Wood Review

A Dream Commission

It’s not often you get a client who keeps telling you to add more and more detail to a piece you’re making for them. Yet, that’s how it was for Melbourne maker Simeon Dux, 33 former carpenter and joiner turned fine woodworker.

‘I had these wonderful clients with really lovely taste. They wanted a piece that would match the style of their other furniture and they kept asking me to add more and more decorative features,’

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