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Chippendale Chair
Feb 10, 2009
This chair is a reproduction of a side chair in the diplomatic rooms of the Department of State. Made of mahogany with a leather slip seat.
This is a Philadelphia Chippendale side chair. The original is in the State Department’s Diplomatic Rooms. The wood is mahogany, finished with shellac. The seat is leather on a yellow pine frame.
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This chair is a reproduction of a side chair in the diplomatic rooms of the Department of State. Made of mahogany with a leather slip seat.
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Comments
Fantastic! How long have you been making period reproductions? Where'd you learn how to carve?
-Gina, FineWoodworking.com
I have been reproducing Queen Anne and Chippendale (mostly Philadelphia) for about 15 years - first as a hobby, now in my retirement, as a vocation. I learned from Gene Landon, whose work you may have seen in FWW. Gene and I have become good friends and while he is opinionated on the subject of period furniture, Gene is extremely generous of his time and talent. There are probably dozens of period woodworkers that he has helped get started in the field. There is no one alive who is better at looking at period pieces and puzzling out how they are put together.
Could you share the details of how you finished the chair?
Thanks very much,
Bill
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