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The Stickley No. 306½ Dining Chair

March 4, 2009
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The Stickley No. 306½ Dining Chair

BY PAUL SELLERS At first glance I thought to myself, “Another broken chair.” The chair, I soon discovered, was an early Stickley dining chair, catalog #306½, with triple-hoop back rails tenoned into the back leg posts on each side, the top one of which had a vertical “green-stick” fracture that had sprung slightly apart...

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Hunting for Equipales in Mexico

March 4, 2009
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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...

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