Additional chapters address chair comfort, finishing, and tool sharpening, making it an ideal resource for woodworkers looking to explore chair making with a creative and practical approach.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. After all, the human body is more suited to sitting on the ground than on a chair, and some chairs even cause back problems.Masseys story is told in thoughtful and invitingly well-upholstered prose, ranging from ancient Egypt to the fetishistic seating of postmodernity, encompassing Arts and Crafts, pushchairs, wheelchairs, famous chairs by Eames and Herman Miller, chairs electric or illuminated, chairs in painting (Van Gogh, Gwen John) and chairs frankly unsittable-on – even a huge (and quite haunting) heap of chairs as a street installation. While this isn’t the first bookshelf chair we’ve seen, this chair goes the extra mile in terms of function.

I also smooth out the writing and add bits of information I’d forgotten during the first brain-to-fingers dump.These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. These chapters are aimed at those who are interested in both English and American Windsor chairs – dealing with them together throughout the book for the first time.