Little Journeys

A Love Affair With Chairs   

  Sometimes it’s the smallest comment that sticks with you the longest. My brother, who lives in Illinois, came to visit this past summer. When he stepped into our two-story ranch house, he slowly surveyed our rooms before announcing,…

Falling Into a Black Hole of Projects

This week, Bruce has plenty of projects to keep him busy, so we're pulling this Little Journeys out of the archive as a reminder of how projects can stack up in our quest for a simpler life. See the irony? Enjoy this gem first published in July…

From Hemingway to Arts and Crafts

This article has been republished. Original date of publication: May 14th, 2018.   “I have a good life, but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount, I do not enjoy the rest of my life.”     That is an Ernest…

Original Finish, Original Choices

  Reading this week’s story about the 1901 Gustav Stickley Morris chair which sold for nearly $50,000, largely due to the fact that it still had its original finish and original leather upholstery, reminded me of two experiences I have…

Staining Leather

  If you saw last week’s column, you know I have been restoring a Gustav Stickley ladder back chair which had been hanging from the rafters in my barn, awaiting a trip up the hill to my workshop. Last week I cut, stretched, and tacked…

A New Leather Seat

  I love workshops. I don’t care whether it’s a woodworking shop, a pottery studio, a stained-glass workplace, or a metalsmith’s workshop, I just love wandering around and looking at their machinery, their specialized tools, their…

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