Chairs - Page 3 of 5

With its roots in a classic three-slat design, Tim Manney's modern ladderback is built from straight-grained maple with turned legs.

Curtis Buchanan builds his "democratic chair" with the bare minimum of inexpensive tools and materials with surfaces directly from the drawknife, embellished with a bit of milk paint

Philip Morley, Libby Schrum, and Kris Burns give their insights into how they designed a modern lounge chair, including the critical details they included and the personal details they added to the iconic Mid-Century style.

A workshop tip on how to make a simple depth gauge for hand-shaped chair seats.

Cutoffs from a walnut slab that were just the right size and had just the right figure to be used as chair seats were the genesis of this chair’s design.…

Brian Boggs has been building chairs since 1982, when he was a student of French and philosophy at Berea College in Kentucky. Before that, he aspired to be a fine art…

Learn when it's best to saw, steam-bend, or laminate parts for chairs and other projects.

Router jig simplifies complex chair joinery.

This bent-laminated chair was built for a client who wanted something “sculptural and amazing.”

Rules are made to be broken, and Matthias Pliessnig has been breaking furniture making rules ever since he started with the craft. The results are breathtaking, sinuous contemporary lines.