The House on the Rock is located in the middle of Wisconsin. It’s a crazy indescribably roadside attraction that we learned of from Neil Gaiman‘s book and tv series, American Gods (watch it on Stars). When we went to The Furniture Society Annual Conference in Milwaukee this summer, we couldn’t help but take a detour to go check it out. It’s astounding and no words can describe it. Highlights include, giant carousel with no horses, room sized music boxes, a giant squid attacking a whale, and massive collections of really random and cool stuff. Of course there were cool CHAIRS! A couple of life-sized chairs, and lots of really cool dollhouse chairs that perfectly emulated their life-sized cohorts, and many of those chairs were in glass domes or in dioramas. I might be obsessed with them now. Here they are, large and small.
Detail of rattan panel on life-sized carriage.
Token life-sized caned chair in the nautical area.
Token caned chair with nautical accoutrements
Rattan paneled carriage
Whale-bone-chair
Even cool chairs in the ladies room
whale bone chair detail
optometrist chair, which of course, Aunt Kathy had an identical one at her farm house, alongside the snowshoe chairs
Rush chair in a dollhouse
bentwood rocker in a dollhouse
I spy a caned bentwood rocker!
Caned sidechair in a terrarium
detail rush chair in a terrarium
rush chair in a terrarium
wicker porch chair complete with requisite curly-qs
rush chair in diorama
rush chair in diorama detail
folding rocker (sometimes seen with cane!)
wicker chairs in diorama
more rush chairs
more and more rush chairs I would not want to weave
