Take a seat

[Jim DeLaney]

Looks great!
Just curious, but why is the heart upside down?

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Looks great!
Just curious, but why is the heart upside down?

This is a hallmark of Limbert. You can see in in several of his pieces. Don’t know the history behind it.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Looks great!
Just curious, but why is the heart upside down?

This is a page from the 1903 Charles P. Limbert & Co. catalog. Note the item #80 in the upper right. On the second page #206.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Stained and waiting for varnish. Hope to have these out of the shop next week.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Nice!!! Get a picture with the table if you can

 

[Leo Voisine]

WOW ---- uh ------ WOW

 

[Rennie Heuer]

These chairs will NEVER be loungers. Not with the straight back and shallow seat. They will, I believe be perfect for leaning over a chessboard. I believe you can find quotes from William Morris and Frank Lloyd Wright to the effect of - I don't care if they're comfortable, I designed them to fit the space, not the person.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

I don't care if they're comfortable, I designed them to fit the space, not the person.

Sounds exactly like Frank Lloyd Wright.

There's one of his houses in OR we visited.. The lady was a weaver and had her favorite loom, so FLW designed in a loom space but rather than moving everything literally 6" to one side to fit her favorite loom he made it just a wee bit to small and she spent the next 30 some years with a lesser loom that fit the space. Interesting design but I'd mostly hate to live in one of his houses.

Your chairs here are certainly more accommodating than that, although I would be mildly concerned about the front & center post from an umm... functional.. perspective It's likely fine in practice and they do indeed look wonderful!

 

[Rennie Heuer]

I visited my client today to get a look at the chairs with the cushions. Leather over 2" firm foam...and surprisingly comfortable.

 

[Robert Horky]

Yet another amazing project. Keep them coming.

 

[allen levine]

I wanna be a woodworker like Rennie when I grow up

 

[Rennie Heuer]

I wanna be a woodworker like Rennie when I grow up

You'll have to take a vow of poverty.

 

[Mike Stafford]

I think you should lower that front leg just a tad bit more.

I gather you don't have need of the full support the existing leg length provides? I know I don't...

 

[Rennie Heuer]

I gather you don't have need of the full support the existing leg length provides? I know I don't...

Those days are a fond, but distant, memory.

 

[glenn bradley]

So good.

 

[allen levine]

You'll have to take a vow of poverty.

I always enjoy when someone who knows me thru a friend or relative asks me if Id be interested in doing something for them.......then I tell them I want to get paid per hour what they make at their job and Ill even take 10 percent less, and their ;project is a two week deal. thats it, they dont ask me again. they want me to work for 6 dollars per hour. isnt wood free, it grows all over.and Im not half the craftsman you are.
not my daughter though, she never questions ;price, she just tells me when you deliver it dad ill make you dinner, and we are even.shes lucky shes giving me another grandchild in 2 weeks

 

[Paul Douglass]

Somebody is going to have the mose unique Chess table in history.. Very beautiful!