The Furniture of Walker Weed BY EDWARD S. COOKE, JR. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF WALKER WEED EXCEPT AS NOTED Walker Weed working on a dining table in his Gilford, New Hampshire shop, 1956. Nestled above the Mink Brook in Etna, New Hampshire, a half mile from the Appalachian Trail, sits a small, red, one-and-a-half...
The traditional Japanese step-chest BY DAVID JACKSON PHOTO BY JAY WEILAND I still wonder what Edward S. Morse was thinking when he saw a step-chest for the first time in his journeys around Japan. Morse, who originally went to Japan in 1877 as a zoologist, would by dint of curiosity and draughtsman's effort provide...
Finding an ancient chair design in the modern world TEXT AND PHOTOS BY TOR FAEGRE Zacoalco de Torres is a small town, just south of Guadalajara, set on a flat lake plain surrounded by low mountains of scrub forest and agave fields. I came here to find the fabled “Montezuma's chair,” the equipal. As...
