Lost Art Press

The comb-back, shown in my personal office. This stick chair features some of my favorite details on older chairs: low side stretchers (with no medial stretcher), plus faceted short sticks and a newly designed skinny armbow. I’m selling it via a random drawing. Details on the drawing are below. Here are some notes on the…

Good guide. The book “Human Dimension & Interior Space” is the foundation of a good library on furniture design. This is an excerpt from “The Anarchist’s Design Book” by Christopher Schwarz. On the outside, we are all different organisms. Different hair, skin, weight, height, clothes and surface decorations (tattoos, makeup, scars). These differences tell others our age, gender,…

Some of the pieces I worked on were well over 100 years old, still strong and easily repaired, while much newer, mass-produced pieces were already broken and not worth fixing. This experience reacquainted me with the ethic of craftsmanship. In retrospect, this was something I think my parents and grandparents had tried to teach me….

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If you have blacksmith taste but a Hillman Fastener budget, here’s a tip on how to make your hardware look better. I’m working on the lid of a six-board chest for a customer today and started tweaking the hinges, which I plan to install tomorrow. These hinges are made in India and sold by Van…