Doug Ricketts
As far back as Doug Ricketts can remember he has built and put things together, feeling a need to use interesting materials gathered close at hand or on special “wanderings.” Born in Oklahoma and raised in Nevada and New Mexico, he grew up being given free reign to really see the country around him and explore his creative strengths. Later, while earning a BFA in sculpture and ceramics, Ricketts worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, not realizing he was heading for a career as a furniture maker. Since 1977 he has lived on the rolling plains of the northeast Texas Panhandle. It is here in this somewhat isolated and sparsely populated place that he has developed his Prairie View style.
Doug Ricketts has always been drawn to the ruins and archetypal structures of the West with their textures and patterns of long use and change. A need for a personal and cultural sense of place has led him to create regionally-inspired furniture—reliquaries of sorts—combining fine domestic woods with castoff ag machinery parts and occasional accent lumber from the ruins. Landscape and weather events, profiles of farm implements and buildings all figure into the designs. Each piece of Prairie View Furniture is a one-of-a-kind sculpture with a story to tell."
 Van Brunt Flyer Coffee Table18"x63"x23-1/2"
$2,000 |  Tornado Tall ChestTornado granary tin, paint, ash, barn joists, baling wire
69 3/4" x 34" x 16"
$2,500 |
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 Sky Strider TableSteel, Poplar, Paint, Patina
34"x72-1/4"x15 1/2"
$1,800 |  Flare LampSteel, Salvage Oilfield Pipe, Fiberglass Cloth
72 1/2" x 15"x 15"
$1,750 |
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 Pecan T-Bone StoolsPecan, T-Posts
30"x 16"x 15"
$1,300/ Pair |  Luna LampCurly Maple, Steel, Fiberglass Cloth
68 3/4"x 20"x 24"
$1,850 |
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 County Rd #12 MirageBurl Mesquite, Rod-Weeder plow frame, Steel
34" x 97" x 21"
$5,000 |  Black Ash T-Bone StoolsAsh, T-posts
30"x16"x15"
$1,300/Pair |
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 Above the Breaks End Tables I & IIMesquite, Steel
24"x 15 1/4" x 15"
$1,100 / Pair |  Above the BreaksMesquite, Steel
33"x 63" x 15 1/4"
$2,200 |
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 Cottonwood SteleRed Oak (dyed), Steel, Cottonwood, Conduit Clamps, car vent handle
71 3/4" X 16"x 14 1/2"
$1,950 |  Summer Mirage Tall Case(Wood, milk paint, recycled sheet metal, harrow knives, steel)
71h x 20 1/2w x 14½d
$2,800 |
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 Better Shut it DownHall Tree
Ash (sandblasted, dyed), broken gear, combine attachments, baling wire
81.5H x 19W x 19D
$1,500 |  New Moon Table I(Pecan, cultivator wheel rim, steel pipe)
30h x 35w x 17d
$850 |
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 Cyclone BureauCabinet
Oxidized maple, Ward's granary tin, sulky rake tines, fabricated & blackened steel
71.75H x 39.5W x 19D
$6,500 |  Reaching for the Green(Quilted maple (dyed), tee posts)
68h x 23w x 14d
$1,200 |
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 Wreck in the WestPasture Floor Lamp
Chinese elm, T-Posts
69H x 29W x 24D
$1,900 |  Red Mesa Tine(Steel, Milk Paint, Pit-fired sheet metal, baling wire and pitchfork tines)
34h x 70w x 15d
SOLD |
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 Caprock Canyon Bench(Red Oak, steel, Baltic birch plywood)
27 1/4h x 37 1/2w x 16d
$1,850 |
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