“I am a Welshman, and I am influenced in the chairs I make, or some of them, by old Welsh chairs. Irish chairs are as different as is possible, so are Scottish chairs. Brittany is Celtic. The people of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales speak a language which has little relation to the Irish or Scots Gaelic. Celtic (with a hard C) is difficult to define, but it is a fashionable ‘buzz’ word, as was heritage a year or two back…. I would forbid the word Celtic to be applied to my work, it is Welsh. Welsh.”
— John Brown in a letter to Drew Langsner at Country Workshops, Jan. 3, 1995
That chair has some amazing details.
I have a chair very like this one. It looks like it has been in this house since the house was built. But it is older than the house, I believe.
It was my grandmother’s. She lived in Ynysforgan, which is where I remember it first in my life. It came to my father. Now me. The house it is now in is in Hampshire, UK.
I’m tempted to attempt the build just to see what it feels like. It looks like I would fall on my back.
Now I am curious what a Irish and Scottish chair form is if they are so different from the Welsh.
Cymrum am byth!
Darn auto correct: Cymru am byth