A little while after Sarah welcomed her new chair into her home I received a note – it left me at a bit of a loss for words (doesn’t happen often), but with a smile a mile wide.
“I had been waiting for the chance to take photos on a sunny day, then I realised I didn’t need to because the chair looks beautiful in all light conditions! Not only are the proportions elegant and graceful, it is so well crafted. You can see how every line and curve and every joint were carefully considered. I have been moving the chair around my house since it arrived, looking at the details and seeing how it fits in different contexts. It looks equally at home on the brick floor, beside my plants or against a plain white wall. There is an empty space that I’ve always had in mind for a chair like this and when I placed the chair in that space, it looked like it had always belonged there! The colour of the wood and the textures in the grain have a soft gleam and the curved arms are lovely to touch. When I sit in the chair I feel contemplative. I think about the trees that each part was carved from, I think about the roots of those trees in the Earth and I feel grounded. I also think about an architect I admire called Peter Zumthor who said:
Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.
Quite fitting, I think.”
Metta – Greenwood Hazel and Yew Armchair – Jason Robards
Metta – Greenwood Hazel and Yew Armchair – Jason Robards
So, Sarah, thank you, so much – a week later and I am still at a loss for words, and the smile is still a mile wide.