Silver River Chairs

Planet Art would like to thank Asheville Savings Bank for allowing us to have a display in the lobby….in October. According to The Better World […]

Shaker Tape is a cotton webbing available in many colors and fun designs.  You get the benefits of creating a vibrant new look and getting […]

Tipton Gentry of Portable Onsite Photography is a hero to flakey artist types with deadlines! No wedding, no kids, just ART. Check him (and our […]

We had a great time at the Asheville Chili Cookoff benefit for Brother Wolf No-Kill Animal Shelter. It was at Asheville Brewing Company on Coxe […]

Chair Repair has a new home! The River Arts District, in fact, and not all over my house anymore!  An alpaca led us there, but […]

My dad got this chair from an antique store in Bremen Germany. There is a plaque that reads: Gustav Panhorst (the designer) patented deckchair Bremen, […]

Okay all you DIY’s (Do It Yourselfers), here is what you’re getting into!  As I was gutting out machine cane from some bauhaus style kitchen […]

When I was the Artist in Residence at the Grove Arcade Arts and Heritage Gallery late 2008, I met lots of cool people.  Many of […]

I heart trashpicking!  Scored a cane bottom and back seat a la Bauhaus kitchen chair, not my style, don’t really need it (at all) but […]

How freakin’ cool is this? If you haven’t been to the British Museum, you oughtta. It’s FREE (after you pay for the trip to London) and is divided according to continents….there is some world class pillaging. So I found this in the Africa section. I’ve seen a panel similar to one of these in a restroom in Kudu Coffee my favorite coffee shop in Charleston. The owners lived in Africa for a while. Caning was also popular in Egypt, with the grassy banks of the Nile providing material for stools and chairs. The Egyptian stool I saw in the museum was more like natural rush or seagrass cord that you see today, not nearly as striking as this but cool to see how an ancient design still is seen today.

I quote the Beatles…all you need is love…doot do do doot do….So I am at my sisters and spent the day “bonding with some furniture” as my dad used to say. These two big natural rush chairs were starting to get a little dry and brittle. Once they go, they go quickly so take care of your chairs folks! All they need is a little love. A little maintenance goes a long way. If you have natural or fiber rush and it is looking old, just slap a coat of shellac on the seat to give it a few more years. If you have cane, then wet a towel and lay it across the bottom of the chair every few months to help tighten the weave. Pictures coming soon.