You don't have to be a highly skilled woodworker to make a chair. And you don't have to be insanely wealthy to own a nice one, either.
The truth is that everyday woodworkers – farmers, amateurs and people in other trades – made wonderful chairs using common woodworking tools and whatever wood was available: dry, wet, soft, hard or the branches plucked from a tree.
“The Stick Chair Book: 2nd Revised Edition” explores the craft of “hedge carpenters” who built chairs for the everyday home. The chairs they made weren’t designed to impress the gentry – they were designed to be comfortable, stout and (if you have a good eye) nice to look at.
After 22 years of building vernacular stick chairs and studying historical examples in the U.K., Europe and North America, author Christopher Schwarz has figured out how anyone can design and build these chairs without a lot of gear or specialty jigs.
Printed and bound in the United States
Signed by the author
- Hardcover: 568 pages
- Dimensions: 6" x 9" x 2"
