One block of wood, four generations, 120 years - Grand Rapids Magazine

One block of wood, four generations, 120 years - Grand Rapids Magazine

West Michigan was already becoming a manufacturing powerhouse when Louis Fuller started making bowls in North Muskegon in 1906, where he developed the concept of making nesting bowls from a single block of wood. The region’s forests supplied lumber and paper mills, its rivers and Great Lakes moved raw materials and finished goods, and its factories turned wood into furniture and other products that would become hallmarks of the region. Fuller fo…