Oh the joys of stumbling upon a Chair Shop on your first day in a new city! Dave and I were ready to get out […]
Chair Nerd Debut at Arrowmont, 2019. Part 2: The Class
Is it possible to fall in love with 7 people in a week? Yes it is. If your students are as badass as those in […]
Chair Nerd Debut at Arrowmont, 2019. Part 1: The experience
So I have a habit of over-joining, over-committing, over-helping. I used to say “time well spent it money not spent.” This was said when I […]
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 […]
The Return of The Beast
It was exactly 1 year ago today that we THOUGHT we’d tamed The Beast, a chair that took over 200 hours to weave the medallion […]
Cane-spotting! The Inaugural Luncheon.
In the early days of my chair caning business, I came up with a cheer: GO CHAIR REPAIR! And a jingle: Chair repair, chair repair, […]
Canespotting: Mark Twain’s Chair
While being laid out with the flu, Dave and I watched a Ken Burns special about Mark Twain. We see cane chairs and designs in […]
The Taming of the Beast
WE DID IT! Our most difficult chair caning project to date. It only took us one year and 228 hours, but we have tamed the […]