A Hole In The Team

I learned with sadness this morning of the recent death of Philippe Lafargue, my friend and collaborator for more than 35 years.  I will write more about Philippe soon, but he was recently profiled in the lostartpress.com blog.

Our last in-person intersection was when the Deluxe Edition of the marquetry edition premiered in 2013, and we signed copies together at Woodworking in America. In the years since, Team Roubo was the very model of modern collaboration via the interwebz, as we would send updated versions of documents from the Virginia Highlands to Vermont to southern France effortlessly.

Michele and I will soldier on, but it will definitely not be the same.