For around two years it sat in the back of his mind – a way of somehow translating a Maloof chair joint into a ‘dovetail’ joint. And then, one day on the way home from work, it came to him. The next day in the garage he cut his first ‘rotating dovetail joint’. ‘It took about 8 hours, and there was *a lot* of staring,’ 'but it came together in the end, and it’s an incredibly strong joint.’ The Doberman Chair is a proof of concept piece made from sapele and hard maple, and has a 'rotating' dovetai