Mathew Teague’s Video Workshop, Ash Chair
Well, I don’t see any way to contact Mathew to ask him a question, but maybe I can do it here in the forum, if the powers that be will allow it. In his first intro video to his chair he makes the point that he “wants the chair to be comfortable for all sizes of people”, and if that flips your switch, OK! …BUT when I was a boy in West Tennessee in Yorkville, just to the west of Nashville where Mathew Teague lives, my grandmother had a long plank floored front porch on her old clap board covered log home, and in the late forties and fifties there were many chairs on it (and this discussion includes rockers of all sizes too), and there were small chairs for children of various ages, and mid-sized chairs for small women and larger children or early teens, and there were big chairs with wide bottoms for, well, folks who matched them, and there were big man chairs for tall men with long legs, and on and on. So, my question is to any of you and/or to Mathew Teague, if you want to build a chair that is “your sized” how do you take measurements so as to do so correctly? Is there a source that offers up such various sizes in measured drawing format, and don’t tell me they are in the architectural standards of today, for they are not, and commercially sold furniture has shrunk (except for the rockers on the front porch at the Cracker Barrel Restaurants in Tennessee who are selling them like hot cakes because its the only place you can buy a chair big enough for a man to sit in in comfort.). I want to know how you correctly dimension a “made for a person” chair that is intended for that individual solely and not a “one size fits none” approach. 🙂 I have my thinking–like measuring the length of knee-t0-foot when leg is bent 90degrees at knee, measuring the back of the butt to the back of the knee, measuring butt to shoulders, shoulder width, hip width, etc. Is there a directive procedure for doing this available in todays literature or on line? If so, where? …. Clay Hall, Memphis, TN
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