“The Stick Chair Book” explores the craft of these “hedge carpenters” or dabblers who built chairs for the everyday home. The chairs they built weren’t designed to impress the neighbors – they were designed to be comfortable, stout and (if you have a good eye) nice to look at. After 18 years of building vernacular stick chairs and studying historical examples in the UK, Europe and North America, author Christopher Schwarz has figured out how to design and build these chairs withou...
