Green Wood Chairs
Chairs and chairmakers of Ireland
by Alison Ospina
Softcover
210 x 297mm
150pp
Published by Stobart Davies Limited, Ammanford UK
R.R.P.$38.90
ISBN 978-0-85442-151-0
Extract from back cover of book:
Alison Ospina started her career as a woodwork teacher in London in the 1970s. She started making green wood chairs when she moved to West Cork in 1996. 'I was inspired by the magic of the landscape and wanted to create my own work.' Since then Alison has taught a vast number of students to make attractive, robust chairs, stools and tables using tools and techniques she has evolved and developed in her workshop over the years.
Few
articles of furniture mirror so clearly their maker's personality as the hand-made
chair. Alison Ospina's book is a delightful exploration of this curious symbiosis
among some of Ireland's most idiosyncratic craftsmen and women.
Jeremy
Irons
There's
nothing more fundamental than a chair, so essential to everyday life, and in Green
Wood Chairs Alison Ospina reveals traditional chairmaking with a modem twist.
Inspired by her spirit and guided by her simple instructions, anyone can make
a chair now, selecting the materials from the hedgerow and building something
that's unique and special. You'll never look at a hazel branch in the same way
again.
Nick Gibbs, Editor British Woodworking magazine
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial and Metric
Contents
Introduction
Design influences
Hazel - traditional uses, coppicing and magic
Getting your wood
Tools, techniques and devices
Stools and small tables
Side chair
Child's chair
Fireside armchair
Rocking chair
Gallery of Irish chair makers
Budding green wood chair makers
Appendix
Resources
Acknowledgements
Bibliography