Thoughts + Stories
I’m extremely excited to announce that my book ‘Good Work’ The Chairmaking Life of John Brown has been published by Lost Art Press. The book gives an insight John Brown’s fascinating life as a chair maker, hand tool revivalist and also his philosophical approach to the craft.
Read MoreI never knew his name at the time, other than there was a mythical chairmaker from the western seaboard side of my native homeland of Wales. He made chairs by hand without the aid of electricity and lived in his workshop. In the early 1990s, with some research, I found out that he had written a book called “Welsh Stick Chairs.” It was being sold in a bookshop less than an hour’s drive from me.
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