I put pressure treated wood where the seat should be and have plants on it nine months out of the year. This aluminum glider skeleton never had any cushions. This one is in better shape, but the rails and swinging devices are totally gone. Its rails are gone, and the seat is full of automobile body putty. Glenn got this one for me off of a street in south St. Most are in good shape, nicely reflecting a well-used history. It was with my rather large collection of gliders. We have two houses chock full of chairs, to the point that we can handle no more. Often, that pattern is seen retrospectively, but it helps to know what you are doing, even if you are in the middle of it.Ī while ago, I knew that sooner or later I would do something with chairs in my work. If the artist can pull way back and observe the chronology of their work, patterns will emerge. ![]() Knowledge comes from repetition, visual cohesiveness comes from repetition, personal truths come from repetition. For me, pattern is the most important element in art making. Cannot figure out where this stuff comes from.Īrtists need to observe patterns in their behavior. Now I am making him a chair that he will never be able to use. It is not Ben’s however, it is a piece of sculpture located in our bedroom when not being used by him. The size is perfect.īen uses Gee’s sixty year old stroller when he is here. Then I bought the old wooden rocker for him. Have never even seen a child’s 1940-50s metal lawn chair for sale, although I am sure they exist. It is sweet, but it would be perfect if it matched all the others around here. Last summer I bought this little metal outside chair. I fantasize about him being big enough to sit in it. ![]() To me, it is a beautiful and sweet piece of sculpture. It is a theme in the pictures, a sub-plot. My daughter has taken a picture of Ben with his turquoise chair for each of his eleven months. I have bought him three chairs and am now making him one. ![]() Ice cream? He is too young for that.Ĭhairs. In the last almost a year, I have bought him more of one thing than anything else, by far. It is extremely heavy and the sprayer is copper, just under the normal size of a water hose. I have an email into the company now for information as to how to best hook it up. It is from Henri Studio, Palatine, Il., and is a cement lotus flower. This fine little pond accessory still had its original price tag on it. These chairs seem to me to be of a cleaner design than those of the 1940s. It may be simply a design choice, but water can gather underneath the front of the bottom plane if the metal is curled under to finish it. This bar at the front of the seat on these chairs is new to me as well. Those spots are like Achilles’ heel for outdoor furniture. My earlier “free” find bent at the knees because water was allowed to settle there. They get water out of places where it might corrode the metal. The holes in chairs do much more than make them beautiful. The chairs look rusty here, but they are very solid. The ones in the middle of the backs and seats look like the three tiny staggered windows that used to be on the front doors of tract houses back in the fifties. The backs and seats of the chairs are punched through with a series of capsule-like shapes. Now that space will have two fine figures, and these are of a design never seen by me. The path below is now finished and a fig tree planted to the left of this area. I have been working behind the pool and beside the newly moved silo, and unfortunately there were no lawn chairs for that space. Hard to believe, but there are spaces on this acreage that do not have a composition of old lawn chairs and gliders positioned so one can contemplate either nature or their navel. More money slipped from mine than usual between lawn chairs, sculpture raw materials, a fine chalk figure, and a cement lotus. Today was a really fine morning for me at the flea market, but my partner came home with every bit of his money. ![]() Maybe when one is forced to pay for something, the repair is more insistent. But it was FREE-the best! We have not addressed its broken legs yet which is awful as its seat and back are among the most intact we have. The last one Glenn found at the county waste disposal site needed a lot of work. It has been a portable accommodations desert since my last discovery of retro metal lawn chairs.
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