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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Crawford shows some of his original design sketches – including an impressive host and hostess table for Flathead Lake Brewing Company.
Vinoture coat racks made from the stave of wine barrels and repurposed Italian metal are seen in the furniture maker’s workshop.
Vinoture’s showroom in Whitefish.
Crawford, who already had a burgeoning interest in green building, to tap into his sustainable mindset and talents to build something unique.
With a passion for working within a small footprint, Crawford seized on an idea to combine the utilitarian and artistic work of the vintner, hooper and wood-smith to showcase a product that represented a cyclic, symbiotic relation- ship between artisan craftsmanship, the vineyard and his hometown community.
Vinoture has since furnished dozens of commercial restaurants and bars in the United States and Canada, having pro- duced more than 4,000 pieces of furni- ture, and the company is edging toward developing a manufacturing plant that rivals nationwide distributors.
His most recent wares are on display at the new Flathead Lake Brewing Co. location in Bigfork, which is certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, making the business a perfect home for Crawford’s reclaimed wood furniture and his phi- losophy of sustainability.
“I grew up on Flathead Lake’s Finley Point, so furnishing Flathead Lake Brewing Co. is one of the biggest, most significant moments of my life,” Crawford said. “The fact that we are reclaimed and they are LEED certified is the kind of partnership I’ve dreamed about.”
At the new Mackenzie River Pizza, Grill and Pub in north Kalispell, Crawford outfitted the restaurant with his signa- ture wine-barrel trees, as well as table- tops hewn out of beetle-killed trees. It is owned by the Whitefish-based Glacier Restaurant Group, whose chairman, Bill Foley, owns a vineyard in Santa Barbara,
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