Anyone Can Be A Chairmaker; Chris Schwarz of Lost Art Press

Name: Anyone Can Be A Chairmaker; Chris Schwarz of Lost Art Press
Start: 2025-08-13T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 620 Greenup Street, Covington, KY, United States, Kentucky 41011

Schedule

Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

620 Greenup Street, Covington, KY, United States, Kentucky 41011 | Covington, KY

For the last 22 years, furniture maker Christoper Schwarz has studied the furniture made by everyday people – what academics call “vernacular furniture – which is ignored by most museums. By studying older pieces and building new versions of them, Chris has found the clever ways in which farmers and other non-professionals did complex trigonometry and precise joinery using basic tools.
In this presentation, Chris will show off a 300-year-old chair made by a farmer and the clues it offers as to how it was built. And then he’ll use those clues to assemble a basic chair on stage.
The goal of the presentation: To show you that anyone can be a chairmaker.
Learn more and register at www.bakerhunt.org/special-events/
This event is FREE, but seating is limited and REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.