A magical, light, strong chair that floats the sitter over air. Dense wood, carved smooth and soft as if shaped by nature, forms a steep cliff face with a ledge jetting out to perch on.
Reading as both a tower crane and the bird it's named for. Half-lap and mortise-and-tenon joinery are the secret to making this seemingly gravity-defying chair extremely strong and durable. The Crane Chair is perfectly balanced in its two-legged stance, reinforced with strong traditional joinery that lets its hand-carved, cantilevered seat support the sitter comfortably. Void of front legs, the sitter soon realizes the freedom of interacting with this chair without the legs getting in the way.
It's made from holey red oak urban-salvaged from Bunker Hill Road, Canton, Connecticut — hard, strong wood covered in beetle trails. Andrew wire-brushed away dust and weak spots to leave a bleached, bone-in-the-desert texture, then finished it with a nontoxic Danish soap that gives the wood a silky feel and the muted white look many try to fake with stains and liming waxes. He credits George Nakashima's use of crotches and irregular tree parts, and his own two-legged chairs, as a direct influence, extended here to spalted and insect-eaten wood generally — letting what nature did to the wood be a feature rather than a flaw.