Charles Prowell

A graduate of Southern Illinois University, Charles Prowell studied architecture, art, and design under Buckminster Fuller. He founded Prowell Woodworks in Sonoma County, Calif., several years later. After serving a childhood apprenticeship, Ben Prowell headed to Boston to study furniture-making at the North Bennet Street School. Upon graduating, he returned to California to work with his father.

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