Burly Chairs

I saw these seats in a hotel lobby near Santa Barbara and I had to ask Sixty about them:

Surely they were turned on a lathe.  Staff at the hotel didn't know about them.

When is a leg not a leg?

When it is a stick. I was sawing leg blanks today and one of them fell off my workbench. My dog grabbed it and ran off - she thought it was a game. So I chased her around the yard and eventually she dropped it. Work and dogs make for a wonderful life.

What can I say, 1685 strikes again.

Furniture old and new

First of all, this has nothing to do with Al Capone, you mook, so fuhgedaboudit!

There is a furniture maker whose work I have admired for as long as I have been aware of it, Judy Kensley McKie. Even though she is a far up north Y*nkee, her work is awesome. I can't even begin to emulate nor imitate it. This is an example of what she does:

As interesting and contemporary as that piece looks, there are precedents going back to the olden days, not just to the time of Khufu, but to his momma, Queen Hetepheres. She had a chair but at some point over the last 2.5 millennia it had issues. They found pieces of it, and some over-credentialed and overpaid monkeys at Harvard decided to make a repro of the original. This is how it turned out:

Yeah, that doesn't look much like Miss Judy's chair, but wait - check out the detail under the arm of the chair:

Fluid bird form - impressive details, yep, Judy (can I call her Judy?) is mining an old vein in furniture design.

More about Ms. McKie's work here.

Details and audio-free video of the work done at Harvard.

And to my friends over at Shopbot, good on ya, lads, you are the best.

Rock the chair.