Pepper Mills of Distinction
Handcrafted By Gifted Artist Philip Fleishman M.D.

About The Artist

Artist and Craftsman Philip Fleishman M.D. is a retired Plastic Surgeon who has been creating wood art for over forty years. His works include complicated intarsia, fretwork, custom furniture, delicate inlay and some of the most creative and unusual pepper mills you will ever see.

A selection of his pepper mills have been displayed at the Tucson Museum of Art Gift Shop and the Gifted Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently his works are being sold in the Curry Gallery in Tubac, Arizona, the Wood Gallery in Newport, Oregon and Environmental Realists in the Artist Colony of Tlaquepaque in Sedona, Arizona.

His pepper and salt grinders are used by the former food editor of the Ottawa Citizen in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The recipients of the Gay Cook Bursary at the School of Culinary Arts at Algonquin College in Ottawa are also awarded one of his pepper mills. His works have enjoyed sales throughout the world.

While practicing Plastic Surgery he received many awards and honors for his work with burn victims. In 1973 the Centurions in Tucson Arizona named him "Physician of the Year" for his dedication to burn care in Southern Arizona. He is one of a very select group to ever receive the award of "Honorary Firefighter" by the Tucson Fire Department. His woodturnings reflect the same precision and attention to detail that he brought to the practice of Plastic Surgery.

"The basic principles in wood turning and reconstructive plastic surgery are the same," says Dr. Fleishman. "In one you are changing the shape and appearance of plant tissue. In the other you are changing the shape and appearance of human tissue. In both, the goal is the same-to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing result.