This is the first chair I made in Derbyshire since my family and I relocated a short time ago. The timber is a mix of origins, the ash bow was steam-bent in the woodland of East Sussex where I learned my craft, the stick parts - legs, spindles & stretchers - were the last of my Leicestershire ash stock, and the seat is from a spalted beech slab kindly gifted to me soon after moving to Middleton. This chair has been on display at the Haarlem Shop in Wirksworth and last year’s Perennial exhibition (alongside the OTHER Wirksworth chair makers) and has come with me to every event I’ve done - which is likely where I met you. An awful lot of people have sat in this chair and every person of every possible size and shape has remarked at just how comfortable it is. I’ll be making a lot more of these in the future.
The design is rooted in Scandinavia and takes a healthy dose of style from my teacher, Jason Moserri. It’s an amazing all-rounder. You can sit back and read or watch the world, use it at desk to work in comfort, or dine in style. It has spent the last year at our dining table in fact, and it’s a firm favourite. Consequently there are couple of superficial knocks and the honey-ivory colour of freshly finished ash has begun to age into amber and butterscotch tones.
The usual price for these chairs with a figured wood seat is £850. As the condition of this one straddles ex-display and used I’m offering it at a brisk discount and with no lead-time. It’s been given some tlc and a nice new coat of my linseed oil & beeswax finish.
A couple of people have said things like “I’ve been coveting this chair!” so if that’s you I hope this will present a good chance to snag a really beautiful piece of furniture.
This is the first chair I made in Derbyshire since my family and I relocated a short time ago. The timber is a mix of origins, the ash bow was steam-bent in the woodland of East Sussex where I learned my craft, the stick parts - legs, spindles & stretchers - were the last of my Leicestershire ash stock, and the seat is from a spalted beech slab kindly gifted to me soon after moving to Middleton. This chair has been on display at the Haarlem Shop in Wirksworth and last year’s Perennial exhibition (alongside the OTHER Wirksworth chair makers) and has come with me to every event I’ve done - which is likely where I met you. An awful lot of people have sat in this chair and every person of every possible size and shape has remarked at just how comfortable it is. I’ll be making a lot more of these in the future.
The design is rooted in Scandinavia and takes a healthy dose of style from my teacher, Jason Moserri. It’s an amazing all-rounder. You can sit back and read or watch the world, use it at desk to work in comfort, or dine in style. It has spent the last year at our dining table in fact, and it’s a firm favourite. Consequently there are couple of superficial knocks and the honey-ivory colour of freshly finished ash has begun to age into amber and butterscotch tones.
The usual price for these chairs with a figured wood seat is £850. As the condition of this one straddles ex-display and used I’m offering it at a brisk discount and with no lead-time. It’s been given some tlc and a nice new coat of my linseed oil & beeswax finish.
A couple of people have said things like “I’ve been coveting this chair!” so if that’s you I hope this will present a good chance to snag a really beautiful piece of furniture.
