Here are some of my favorite chairs;
Here are some of my favorite chairs;
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
You have a very modern taste. My favorite chair of all time came up when researching cane back chairs, and this was listed as a "Thonet rocking chaise." No chair thread would be complete without this amazing bentwood rocking recliner. I took that to mean Michael Thonet. When I get to Heaven I intend to look him up.
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That is for certain, and I've been sticking to wooden chairs since this is WW forum, but there is a ton of metal stuff I enjoy also.
Love the Thonet rocker, and that's the first of the rocking chaise that I've seen, it's awesome.
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The only chair I have ever been interested in, well this and Jefferson's campeche chair.
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Last edited by Zach Dillinger; 08-14-2014 at 4:05 PM.
Your endgrain is like your bellybutton. Yes, I know you have it. No, I don't want to see it.
I plan to build a replica of that rocker one day, but I just got the plans for a Mora clock into which I will place Clayton Boyer's "Simplicity" wood clock, and that will keep me busy for a while (along with teaching a kayak building class on Saturdays at the moment.) I don't have access to proper woods for a bentwood, so I have some searching to do.
By the way, I LOVE the chair that converts to a clothes tree. I have a perfect place for one of those and I just might have enough mahogany lying around to make one, or it might be a good project for the remainder of a douglass fir sailboat mast that I salvaged. Thanks for sharing that.
Those Mc Intosh things make the Puritan church pews seem like Barcaloungers!
That would be impressive on both counts. That is a whole lotta bent beechwood!
The valet chair is by Hans Wegner.
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Hah! I'm amazed that it is meant to survive out doors.
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First off, this was edited using my finger as a stylus on the iPad, so it is crude, but I have already been asked by my sister-in-law to build the valet chair. I decided it needs four legs and another piece in back that goes around the center piece so you can hang the pants on the back. Looks like I will be building two- one for her and one for me. I hate making two because it's twice as hard as one.
hmmmm. I dunno. Maybe the three-legged version is better. I do prefer a rear pants hanger.
It's likely three legs for good reason, so I would keep that in mind. Also worth noting that Hans Wegner built actual prototypes, by hand, of most of the chairs he designed.
He must have really enjoyed using a spoke shave.
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My mom has a whole dining set in teak very similar to the first chair you show; bought from a store called "Scan" (as in Scandinavia) in about 1971 - back when dad couldn't decide whether to wear his ascot or a turtleneck dickie with his blazer...after growing up with all the trendy 60's-70's "moderne", my tastes run more towards Zach's, unless I could get some of the milk bar furniture from Clockwork Orange (but I assume that's fiberglass, not wood). I don't dare post an image...