Category: chair craft

Furniture Society and the Siblings Bench by Libby Schrum

I came across the website of the US Furniture Society It has an annual conference with exhibitions. It has blogs, but Showing is maintained best. Although it has no public member list, it is possible to learn something about who is who in the furniture craft in the US, also from its FaceBook Page.

Between their photos I found this beautiful Bench Siblings by Libby Schrum. It was on exhibition at the 2010 Conference at MIT. Unfortunately I haven’t discovered Libby’s own site, because I’m curious about other work she may have made.

I also noticed that I have featured some prominent members of this esteemed association here on Chair Blog already. There will be more in the future.

To give you an impression what they do, I give you here a couple of posts about the 2010 conference:

Update
Ah, thanks to Brian Fireman‘s comment here below, I looked again and found Libby’s Website

Update 2
And I have to share this funny video by Hayami Arakawa:


Furniture Society Conference 2010

Uploaded by Hayamit. – Onafhankelijke web video’s.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM

Grant Sonnex’s Fine and Sustainable Furniture

Grant Sonnex's Hand-made Furniture

I’ve been, and still is a big fan of hand-crafted furniture. I came across this stunning hand-crafted chair made by Grant Sonnex, a former wildlife radio producer with the BBC Natural History Unit. Although I don’t know whether this chair has a name, it’s balanced form, warmth color, rustic texture, and wonderful craftsmanship was stuck in my head almost immediately as soon as I saw it. I see a spirit of great respect towards nature, do you see that too?

After an award-winning BBC career producing and presenting natural history radio, Grant Sonnex gave it all up to train with the renowned furniture designer maker, David Savage, and establish his own fine furniture workshop on the edge of the Cotswold hills.

Grant Sonnex aims to make his furniture from sustainably sourced timber that positively promotes woodland and forest conservation so that the furniture and the forests will be there for the enjoyment of generations to come.

Via Contemporary Fine Furniture

Chair Lady Punk

And another wire chair, the Lady Punk

Price $1,530

Size 170 x 45 x 45 cm or in inches 66.9″ x 17.7″ x 17.7″

Material steel

Found at End Side.

Easy Lounge from Wood Chips only by Passad


A green chair manufacturer is Philippines based Passad. They put together tiny chips of wood of the Gmelina tree which grows abundantly in the Philippines and hand craft them into sculptural furniture like this Easy Lounge chair

Via Christopher Adach .

Letter Bench by Sam and Will Boex



Not better way to start a new week of posts here than with the Letter Bench of Sam and Will Boex, two brothers who together run a studio in Cornwall, UK. The bench was commissioned as a thank you letter for a hospital by a satisfied patient.

The inscription reads:

I would like you to know what a wonderful job all the members of the staff on that ward are doing.
They were kind, polite and caring. No job was too much for them to make my stay on the ward as comfortable as possible

According to Sam and Will “The idea is to reassure new patients about the experience they will have during their stay.”
A bench as a thank you letter is a real poetic thought. Don’t you agree?

Via Boex / 3D Creative Solutions and see their blog Letter Bench.