Philip C. Lowe

Philip C. Lowe, a professional woodworker since 1968, is the author of many Fine Woodworking articles and a long-time contributing editor. He is featured in the Time-Life series on woodworking and in several Taunton Press videos, including Measuring Furniture for Reproduction. Lowe was an instructor at Boston’s North Bennet Street School from 1975 to 1985, the latter five as head of the furniture-making department. He is the owner and director of his own woodworking school, the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts, and is also a well-known teacher at schools throughout North America. He is a winner of the 2005 Cartouche Award, the highest honor given by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, and the 2010 Artisanship Award by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. You own a sailboat. Is it wooden? “I do own a sailboat but I gave up the wooden ones. I like sailing them more than working on them.”

Lowe passed away in January 2021. FWW published a tribute to him in issue #288 (April 2021).