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The Strangers We Live With
There is no more common response, after we have been living with our furniture for a few years, than a feeling of intense (though...
Don
Jun 9, 20193 min read
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Permission To Enjoy...
I decided to take a few hours to myself to decompress… so without thinking too much, I started to carve a piece of scrap wood… being led...
Don
May 28, 20193 min read
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Simplicity
It is well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby: after friends have come around and brought...
Don
May 19, 20194 min read
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The Eames Chair
In the 1950s, Charles and Ray Eames took on a project to design a high-end, luxury chair. It was to be modern, chic, and stylish. It also...
Don
May 13, 20192 min read
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The Douglas Snelling Chair
The 'Snelling Line' was Australia's first popular, mass produced range of furniture sold widely through the major department stores from...
Don
May 5, 20191 min read
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Pausing...
Some days… moments of clarity just turn up when you least expect it. Some days… simple questions just come to mind to ponder. Yesterday...
Don
Apr 21, 20193 min read
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Silky Oak - By Name
Australia’s silky oak has some oak-like qualities, but the Queensland native is not a true oak. Australian silky oak is from the species...
Don
Apr 20, 20192 min read
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Apr 18, 20190 min read
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Fond Memories
You may be happier now, objectively, than you ever were in your earlier years. You may even have had a pretty miserable or perhaps...
Don
Apr 16, 20193 min read
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Books That Get You
You’re turning the pages and a very strange – and very nice – thing dawns on you. This book gets you. Obviously, the author (who might...
Don
Apr 16, 20193 min read
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Please Take a Seat...
We think nothing of them today, they are everywhere. But relatively speaking, it was not that long ago they were very rare – that is, the...
Don
Apr 9, 20192 min read
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Need Help With Your Slippers?
Names of various furniture shapes don't come any more interesting than the "slipper chair." It sounds feminine and romantic and seems...
Don
Apr 2, 20192 min read
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Old Family Photos
She is in a park – kind of looks like some sort of picnic, grinning wildly, looking deeply proud of something, standing next to a boy you...
Don
Mar 23, 20193 min read
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Don't Crumple My Tunic
There are many opinions on the origin of the word "Chesterfield" as a description of the item we now know as such. According to the...
Don
Mar 20, 20193 min read
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Sink Into A Morris Chair
The term Morris Chair usually defines a deep, high armchair with an adjustable reclining back and cushions for the back and seat. It...
Don
Mar 18, 20192 min read
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Rest Here Momentarily
A chaise longue is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs. In modern French the term chaise...
Don
Mar 15, 20193 min read
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The Windsor
A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled...
Don
Mar 10, 20193 min read
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The Balloon Back Chair
No other piece of furniture has had quite the same fall from grace among collectors as has the balloon back dining chair. Once the most...
Don
Mar 8, 20193 min read
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Classic or Crap?
A big question that pops up from time to time for me is, ‘What really matters?’ Sure, there are elements about philosophical living, but...
Don
Mar 2, 20196 min read
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The Lovely Adirondack
The Adirondack chair is another iconic chair, always associated with lovely relaxing imagery, usually beside the water. The first...
Don
Feb 23, 20192 min read
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