Brothers Do Own
THE RUSKE BROTHERS—Ernie (left), John and Stan (back at the factory)—design and make bedroom and dining-room furniture, and the quality of their work is obvious from the bed-end in this picture.
Most of their designs are based either on 17th century American colonial furniture, or on Mediterranean styles, and a new line is usually inspired by a photograph in an overseas magazine A perspective drawing is sketched out full-size on a piece of plywood at the factory, and the brothers stand back and look at it Then they modify the drawing until they think the article will be more suited to the New Zealand market and they start to make a proto-
type. This, tn turn, is modified as they go along. The brothers say they are “giving value we wouldn't have thought possible a few years ago. In fact, it wasn't possible then." One of the reasons for this advance is the development of veneered particle board, which eliminates warping, shrinking and cracking. It crumbles at the edges and has to be lipped with solid timber, but it has brought new techniques and a new quality into furniture making.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 9
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