About

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Bob Meny is the founder of Rob Roy Design.  For those interested in formality, his actual full name is Robert Roy Meny.   Bob was apparently named after Rob Roy Macgregor  the outlaw,  owing to a long Scottish lineage.  This explains the Rob Roy part of Rob Roy Design  and helps dispel the rumor that he was actually named after a cocktail.

After earning an MA from Columbia University in Classical Art History and Archaeology in 1982,  Bob followed his lifelong passion for boats and the ocean and began to work in the sailing industry.  There he discovered a world filled with a limitless array of specialized tools and techniques.  .

Bob spent the next 20 years primarily in sailboat rigging and becoming proficient in the many other aspects of the sailing and boating industry.  He patented and marketed a sailing product called Waterboot that is still actively being sold online today and has become an industry standard. He learned construction and carpentry by taking a principle role in designing and building the timberframe barn where his shop is located and built the greater part of his home in Redding, CT.

After many years of working in the high end boating industry Bob began designing and building all types of free standing , limited production furniture for friends, clients, architects and builders.  Yachting influences can be found in much of his work especially large sweeping curves and compass rose inlays incorporated into much of his furniture design. 

 He is particularly influenced by the work of George Nakashima especially in his working with large organic natural edge slabs in many varied species.

Many of Bob's original designs can be identified by the musical related  bass clef which is often inlaid into his work.