Snowshoe Chairs & Table!
Summer 2019 was very kind to us. We visited Dave’s Aunt Kathy this summer on our way to/from the Furniture Society Annual Conference in Milwaukee in June. Of course she had some cool chairs woven with rawhide at her farm house. She got them in Michigan. Barbara Walker (of the funkiest chair in our shop post) […]
Unusual Rush Chair
“How long did it take you to learn how to weave chair seats?” is a question we hear regularly from guests who are intrigued by our craft. The answer, after almost 10 years and thousands of chairs, is that we are constantly learning. Dave recently repaired a rush chair that was a little unusual…it had […]
Canespotting: Einstein, Lautrec, Stalin, Picasso, & Bentwood
We love hearing the story behind the chair. In our disposable society, somehow people manage to retain sentimental attachments to chairs and get nostalgic warm fuzzies telling the provenance of their chair. Of course some people toss $2000 chairs to the curb because the weave is broken, so it balances out. Speaking of chair stories, […]
Canespotting: Pablo Picasso
As seen on NPR… The Art Of Photographing Artists: Portraits By Arnold Newman by CLAIRE O’NEILL March 28, 2013 A bentwood rocker in pretty rough shape is seen at the right side of the photo. If only I could figure out the wibbly wobbly timey whimey ways of Dr. Who, I could go back in time […]
