Der Stuhlmacher (The Chairmaker)
Sprengel’s chapter on the chairmaker’s trade offers the reader some interesting surprises. The following paragraph gives a detailed description of chair caning. This is a process we will soon undertake while reproducing the chinese styled chair pictured below.
This chair is owned by Colonial Williamsburg and displayed in the Dewitt Wallace Museum
Enjoy, Kaare
Interesting and ambitious project. Is it as hard as it looks? How many hours do you think it will take to complete? I hope you will do posts about the carved elements.
We’re estimating 120-140 work hours in this chair. (That’s exclusive of all the “head scratching” that reverse engineering involves.) Of course as one of a set perhaps it would come down to 120. We will post progress on carving the replica.
Kaare
From the first time I saw the Gov. Wentworth chair I thought it was stunning. This is the best image I have seen to date. If one makes a visit is it on display? If so where and for how long?
I hope you make a series out of this as it is just so interesting.
Best of luck.
Jim
It pays to read the caption under the image. I was so taken with the image I didn’t read the caption about the chair being at the Dewitt Wallace museum.
Jim
The original Wentworth chair is regularly exhibited in the master works gallery of the Dewitt Wallace museum.