The following is excerpted from “The Anarchist’s Design Book: Expanded Edition,” by Christopher Schwarz. It’s an exploration of furniture forms that have persisted outside of the high styles that dominate every museum exhibit, scholarly text and woodworking magazine of the last 200 years. There are historic furniture forms out there that have been around for…
Read moreEditor’s note: I was reviewing some notes from 2012 and stumbled on this abandoned introduction to a book that I rewrote entirely. When I write a book, I usually end up writing about two books worth of material and then winnow the ideas down until it doesn’t make me want to vomit when I read…
Read moreWe now have a good supply of laser-cut chair templates in our warehouse that are ready to ship. The set of templates makes it easier to build the Staked Armchair from “The Anarchist’s Design Book,” but they are also a good starting point for many of the chairs in “The Stick Chair Book.” The seat…
Read moreThis is an experiment. A fair number of readers have asked us to restock the full-size chair wooden templates for the Staked Armchair from “The Anarchist’s Design Book.” We carried these templates for a couple years and discontinued them after sales cratered. So we have done a short run of the templates to see if…
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