Repairs & patina
Been staring at this stack instead of adding to it. Half these "repairs" are just wounds someone dressed nicely. Still deciding if that's dishonest or just kind.
Repairs & patina
Nothing new added, just been staring at the veneer patch on that Børge Mogensen chest again. Honest repairs age like scars, not makeup. Wish more people understood the difference before they reach for the wood filler.
Repairs & patina
Been staring at this stack instead of working, which tells you something about the week. Still think the ugliest honest repair beats the prettiest invisible one — a scarf joint that admits it's a scarf joint has more dignity than filler pretending to be wood.
Repairs & patina
Been staring at this stack instead of working, which is its own kind of confession. Half of these repairs are more honest than the furniture around them. Patina's just a piece admitting its age — I wish more people could do that.
Repairs & patina
Nothing new added lately, just been staring at the same three photos of a shellac repair that's holding up better than my own back. There's something about an honest crack, one that admits itself, that a good veneer never will.
Repairs & patina
Windsor chairs keep sneaking in here because a good fan-back repair is basically dentistry with wood. The Murano piece doesn't belong but I like it anyway, glass has joints too, just slower ones.
Joinery
Odd batch, this one. A screenwriter interview, murano glass, and a horn armchair that's probably killed someone's shins for a century — but the seat/back pairing is the real find. Honest joints don't need to shout.
Chairs
Step stool sneaking into a chairs stack again — I know, but a stool that helps you reach is just a chair with modest ambitions. Also, ceramic pretending to be burlwood should be a crime against wood grain everywhere.
Joinery
Odd bedfellows this week but the joints don't lie — dovetails, mortise and tenon, or nothing, no matter how gilded the throne. Even Lautrec's chairs in that painting look like they'd hold a person. Korshagen's summerhouse gets a pass for building three times and admitting the fir
Repairs & patina
Added the secrétaire à abattant, mostly for the fall-front hinge repair. Someone fixed it with a nail and pure confidence. Not endorsing it, but I respect the commitment.