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glassartist
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31/05/2012 11:17 am  

Other than garage + dude + old + horny, any Ideas on this chair? The only thing that even comes to mind is a Dan Cooper table, but I am not imagining it could be something of his.
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31/05/2012 11:31 am  

DIY-project
from the fifties, maybe from a magazine?


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GrandpaUtz
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02/06/2012 4:54 am  

Cherner
Make Your Own Modern Furniture


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02/06/2012 5:56 am  

Wonderful !
I'd like to flag this thread -- VIPP (very important plywood project).
Thanks for the good photos -- and the alternate in drawing form. Note carefully the differences and similarities between the two designs.
If I were making the photographed chair, I'd consider splining or doweling the stub ends of the central cross-piece, through the leg frames, making a sturdy and permanent structure, independent of the seat and back panels. The alternate would be to half-notch both (all three) parts, thus weakening them all. I can't tell from the photos what was done. Intriguing ! Anyway, a neato and perfectly 40s specimen, to me . . .
(Note also the almost unheard-of technique for fastening the seat in place -- using table-top clips ! Lovely.)
Thanks again, glassartist. How old do you think this chair is ? Do let us know what you find out about this piece. GrandpaUtz, what is the date of the Cherner book ?


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02/06/2012 10:31 pm  

Great chair, and probably a good book.
Now wasn't Norm one of those horny, cigarette smoking old dudes who built relationships out of wood in his wife's garage?
just thinkin'


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glassartist
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03/06/2012 9:48 pm  

One more pic
The back is neatly routered out to accept the uprights.


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03/06/2012 11:15 pm  

Those routed slots
are the most challenging technical aspect to the construction and look to be competently executed, as does the rest of the chair. The shop-grade birch plywood looks American to me, with its fir inner plies, and of a quality consistent with '50's-'60's vintage. Appropriate patina for that vintage, too.
I'd have to guess a talented hobbyist was either inspired by the Cherner book or a similar DIY publication.


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glassartist
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04/06/2012 10:21 am  

I have
thought so too, but it never hurts to check. So rather than an LCW, or DCW, we have a HCW (horny chair wood).


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Mark
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04/06/2012 10:28 am  

HCW!!
Hahahahahaha.


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04/06/2012 6:00 pm  

Hahahahahaha
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