Art Weekly–The Chief’s chair

I cant seem to stop making chairs. I must have been chairless in a previous life!

This is the Easy Rider of chairs (big handle bars, low reclined seat, and really heavy)–it is cantilevered to give it that floating feeling. And the dovetail joints have evolved into the wood inlay decoration on the backrest. The centre piece is cypress pine surround by mahogany and then the yellow box local hardwood half-round slab which forms the backbone of the chair.

The angle of the backrest makes it quite comfortable–it is such that it bears about half of the body-weight–not all of your weight is on your bottom.

Deck chair 2

Velvet patch-work

All PaTcHeD Up

This IKEA armchair was originally covered with plain calico (a blank canvas I couldn’t resist). I patched it with velvet, continuing the theme, ‘ragged glory’.

Deck chair

This $20 special from Big W came out of the box marked ‘green’ but it was a bright lime green which looked highly strung and nervous so I toned it down and added some decoration.