Category Archives: Make a Chair from a Tree

Stick Chairs vs. Coors Light

Chair Chat, Chairmaker's Notebook, Good Work: The Chairmaking Life of John Brown, Make a Chair from a Tree, The Stick Chair Book, The Stick Chair Journal, Welsh Stick Chairs by John Brown

“I do not get your weird chairs,” exclaim about a dozen messages or comments every year. I understand your bewilderment.  I remember being a prospective student at Northwestern University in 1985 where I had been paired up with freshmen journalism students. We were supposed to sleep in their dorm rooms and see what university life…

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Jennie’s Hacking Knife

Make a Chair from a Tree, The Stick Chair Book

After Jennie Alexander died in 2018, she left a house full of tools, chairs and bits and pieces from her long life of woodworking, research and writing. For several months, her friends and family sorted through the possessions and distributed them so they would do the most good. Shortly thereafter, we traveled to Jennie’s Baltimore…

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