Drawing on 20 years of experience and historical examples, Schwarz shows how everyday woodworkers used simple tools and readily available wood to craft practical chairs. Chair discusses and provides images of many iconic chairs, including the Eames Lounge chair, Verner Panton's S Chair, the Aeron office chair and Van Gogh's chair. Additional chapters address chair comfort, finishing, and tool sharpening, making it an ideal resource for woodworkers looking to explore chair making with a creative and practical approach. Tantalising cascades of fruit and flowers, puffy-cheeked cherubs, crowds of figures and flourishes of architecture are all trademark features of his energetic, animated carvings that grace stately homes, palaces, churches and colleges.

The book is filled with images of over thirty different Welsh stick chairs, including two contemporary examples.

of The Stick Chair Journal, which Lost Art Press planned as an annual publication to expand the universe of all things stick chair: More history. This well-illustrated guide by master carver Chris Pye covers all you need to know about the tools of the trade. Other chairs have reached iconic status simply through their everydayness: think of Van Gogh's chair, or the way Shaker chairs have become emblematic of a simpler and purer lifestyle. This book introduces the art, and shares technical information and ideas for those with more experience. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.

Masseys story is told in thoughtful and invitingly well-upholstered prose, ranging from ancient Egypt to the fetishistic seating of postmodernity, encompassing Arts and Crafts, pushchairs, wheelchairs, famous chairs by Eames and Herman Miller, chairs electric or illuminated, chairs in painting (Van Gogh, Gwen John) and chairs frankly unsittable-on – even a huge (and quite haunting) heap of chairs as a street installation. Churches and timber framed houses preserve some of the grander uses of wood but very few everyday artifacts survive.Instead, Moxon (1627-1691) was a printer, a maker of mathematical instruments and (for a time) hydrographer to King Charles II. This paperback book contains 78 pages with lots of full colour pictures to explain the styles and shapes, tools and equipment,. The book examines how these chairs were often made by makers who were without formal training in joinery, and examines how those craftsmen were highly skilled and understood the way the wood grew and how each different timber could be best utilized. After being asked many times how to make them, he thought he would produce a book to teach others how to make them. Their aim in producing this book is to extend the knowledge and appreciation of these important items of the Welsh folk art tradition.

I did not take any pictures of adding horizontal seating area piece but it is same size square piece of plywood like the base piece and it was glued down only. Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works,” is the first English-language book on woodworking (and other trades) – but it was written by a man who wasn’t a woodworker. They have a low carbon footprint thanks to their existing lifespan and they help reduce deforestation because no trees are being cut to produce them. Crafted in the UK using high-quality materials, our extensive range of multipurpose seating can be used across your school, from book corners and learning zones to libraries and offices.They help reduce landfill because, unlike mass-produced non-recyclables, they are high quality in material and craft, and are destined to outlive most other possessions. The great thing is that the moment you open a book, you get lost in it and can escape from the world, into a story that is often much more interesting than what is happening around you. Then you can use these patterns to make your own versions of these stick chairs and start modifying them to create your own original chair designs.