Little Bare Furniture

Ellen Fure Smith created Little Bare Furniture to share her talent for fine woodworking and to honor her own “Little Bear.”
Born and raised in Lexington, Virginia, Ellen grew up appreciating traditional design in a traditional southern small town. In her degree program, Ellen discovered a love of working with wood and for using time-honored historic techniques in creating her pieces. You won’t f

ind any metal fasteners in Ellen’s work. She uses splines, dowels, finger joints, and mortise and tenon joints to create one of a kind works of functional art. Little Bare is a special line of children’s furniture. Using her own lamination technique, sheets of wood are cut into her design, glued, clamped, and shaped and carved by hand. She designs furniture her own “Little Bear” can use. In addition to Little Bare Furniture, Ellen also designs and creates custom fine furniture for clients. Her work has been chosen for display in the Leso Gallery (Toledo, OH) where she was chosen to present a lecture on her work, “We Art Marshall”, celebrating the opening of the Marshall University Visual Arts Center, “Welcome to My Studio,” at Gallery 842 in Huntington WV and in juried exhibitions in the Birke Art Gallery at Marshall University. She has received juried awards for her sculpture and furniture as well as for her 2D designs. To see more of Ellen’s work visit her websites:
For children’s furniture and toys: http://littlebarefurniture.com/
For handcrafted fine furniture: http://www.ellenfuresmith.com
Ellen Fure Smith resides with her family in Bowling Green, Ohio. Her husband, also an artist works in the Art Department of Bowling Green State University. Along with their Little Bear, Jack, they will be welcoming a new bear cub in early 2015.