The Home Front: Beautiful from all angles

Sometimes our lives head in unexpected directions and this is certainly true of furniture-designer and maker Richard Jarvis, who set up shop as a full-time woodworker in Vancouver’s well known Parker Street Studios three years ago after a lengthy career as a mechanical engineer.
“My wife and I came to Vancouver three years ago for a change of jobs for her,” he says. “And when I didn’t get a great deal of pick-up on job applications, I thought rather than do not