Morris Chair #1
Bowed-arm Morris Chair and footstool made from rift and quartersawn white oak and finished with both water-based and oil stain; through mortise and tenon construction and leather upholstery; quartersawn bowed arms were laminated using vacuum bag kit for wooden skateboards; seat back length was increased 4 inches. Chair design is first of two I’ve modified from plans.
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Very nice. Did you make the leather cushions? (The price of those alone would be around $400 in a custom upholstery shop.)
Nice job. I did one similar but was not smart enough to extend the back as you did. That is the only thing that I dislike about the chair. When I brought it into the house my wife said: "It's too big for me to sit in". I replied: "Well, there ya go!"
A great-looking chair. The leather upholstery looks really nice. I'll bet it is comfortable, too.
Well done!
Thanks for the feedback guys; I enjoyed building these chairs but the finishing steps took seemingly forever.
WouldWorker,
I didn't make the leather cushions. We found a local upholsterer who works out of his garage shop and will either purchase leather or use the customer's leather. The chair shown is full size for my father-in-law, and I reduced the size by twenty percent so my version of the chair would fit in our living room! The leather came from Tandy leather - they have great prices periodically on single hides because there are no duplicates, and I needed about 62 square feet; the hide I found was 66 square feet, very good quality, and on sale for $1.19 a square foot. The labor charge for all the upholstery including the footstool was about $229. Tip: check with some of your local antique and consignment shops to possibly find a favored upholsterer; the regular upholstery shops wanted 2.5 times that much for the work.
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