Qcc Artist Directory

Mose Rainault

furniture, woodwork

Tables I especially love making because a table is where people meet, where you share, where you have arguments that are safe because you’re sitting on the other side of a table.

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Mose Rainault

About the Art

His work gets to you by word-of-mouth. He doesn’t advertise. People in the Taos or Red River area are invited to call Rainault and he will bring photographs of his work and discuss their project.

Bio

Thirty years ago, Mose Rainault, a native of Canada who has been a resident of Taos County now for 36 years, made a piece a furniture at someone’s request. He realized that furniture-making was truly the creative and focused activity which could turn his life around.

“Somebody left a little 10-inch table saw on the porch one day. I don’t know who it was, and I started making crosses.” After this table saw was left on his porch, adding further buoyancy to his newfound direction, he moved to Sunshine Valley, then – as now – a rather remote area north of Questa, where he embraced a healthy lifestyle and opened the door to creating one-of-a-kind functional and beautifully crafted tables, shelves, bed frames, and trasteros.

Rainault previously had a shop displaying his work, but now does not show in the Taos area, except for the Questa Studio Tour in August. He also does not have a web page.