Beautifully hand colored and handturned "Basket Weave Wine Stopper" by Jim Swank measures 1.5" wide x 3.75 tall"

Jim (Siloam Springs, AR) reflects on American Architect Louis Sullivan's axiom "Form follows function" and how his most famous understudy Frank Lloyd Wright extended the concept from his teacher by changing it to "form and function are one."   Jim says this axiom represents an ideal for which I strived during my career as a design engineer, and continue to follow as a woodworker.  He is a 16 year member of the AAW (American Association of Woodturners) and have attended several national symposiums.  I am also a longstanding member of the IAP. (Int’l Assoc. of Penturners) and a member of the Arkansas Crafts Guild.