Page Chair

bookmatched walnut, maple, oak, cherry

a cantilevered chair with ergonomic floating lumber support — Cantilevers made possible by joinery, comfort through careful application of ergonomics.

the underside of the chair and one of the shaped feet in progress — silly silly joinery, too many compound angles, too many facets (my boss swears he has good ideas…)

these darker dots are the ends of dowels that provide extra durability in the backslat joints. also shown are the scribe lines used for layout

detail shot of page chair seat showing the exposed and bright ray fleck on one of its facets and the gentle ergonomic curves

Chair feet are long blocks of solid wood that are shaped with a small broad axe, hand planes and blades — shape and facets are found through hand sculpting
each blank unique grain structure of each blank must be considered for composition

side view of a Page Chair showing cantilevers and floating lumbar support

The Page Chair was made as a gift for my dear friend who generously donated his basement to me as a place to live and work while I established myself in DC. I saw this chair in my mind two or three years before I figured out how to make it real. The original featured a Ginkgo wood seat, from a tree that grew on the street where we lived. To achieve the floating back slats and cantilevered two legged design required most of everything I knew about woodwork and a fair bit of dreaming beyond.