Going through an Arts & Crafts period

[RogerP]

Since I retired from the IT grind I've doing some repro. A&C stuff recently ...

Limbert small double oval table. I made it about normal "coffee table" size.

... and this is a Macintosh Tall Chair which is about the same dimensions as the original.

 

[Jensmith]

I really like those! I've always been a fan of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I particularily like the chair. Lovely colour to the wood too.

 

[woodbloke]

Nice...very early A&C though - Rob

 

[Chataigner]

Lovely work. I presume they are in oak, is it european or american?

Are you a machine or a hand tools man?

 

[RogerP]

The table is sweet chestnut (fumed) and the chair is oak. I use hand tools quite a lot but also machines to avoid too much unnecessary labour

 

[Mattty]

Nice work Roger.
I paticularly like the coffee table.

 

[Tierney]

very nice, really like the chair.

DT

 

[Dodge]

Hi Roger,

Seeing your Rennie Macintosh chair reminded me of a project I had about three years ago where I was commissioned to make a full dining suite. They wished for a slight twist on the original and as well as leaving them natural oak as they wished to keep the room light and airy I also inserted stained glass squares into the back uprights in the chairs.

Rog

 

[RogerP]

Very, very nice .. and some commission! My trouble, as a hobbist, is that I get bored making more than one of an item so I could never do this as a job Yes, Mackintosh used stained glass in the cut-outs of some chairs, didn't he. Never tried myself - yet!