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The Beauty of the Warm and Familiar

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 story vernacular house built in… »

Kaidan Dansu

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 the United States with… »

Hunting for Equipales in Mexico

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 I entered the… »