Little Journeys

Take A Seat

  The design philosophy of simple elegance applied even to the seats of Arts and Crafts chairs. Unlike tufted Victorian velvet, Arts and Crafts designers opted for leather, although not always brown. By the time many Arts and Crafts chairs…

To Teach Is to Learn

  There’s an old saying I was reminded of this week: that you never really learn something until you try teaching it to someone else. I can still distinctly remember sitting in Dr. Thornberry’s class on “Shakespearean Tragedies”…

Finding Your Sanctuary

  Along with gray hair and wrinkles, with age we gain a few maxims by which we either live our lives – or, if easier, just tell others how they should live theirs. I tend to do both. As a parent, I have always believed that every child…

An Arts and Crafts Instruction Manual

  Last weekend I put aside my furniture projects and started some long overdue maintenance of my two 60” pasture mowers which I pull behind our Kubota farm tractor. When it comes to motors and machinery, I do not have dependable natural…

Learning the Anatomy of Furniture

  Life can often bring you full circle.   After five years standing at the front of a high school classroom, I left teaching to write the Great American Novel. But at age 27 I found that when it came to life, I didn’t know squat.…

A Grant Wood Little Journey

  Some of my most memorable little journeys did not require a full tank of gas or Google maps, but instead took place right here in my office. Some started as phone conversations with friends; others took place inside one of the research…

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