If you are planning to visit our storefront this season, here are our holiday hours.
We’ll be open for our regular hours (10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday) through Christmas Eve (Wednesday, December 24).
We will close all operations – the storefront, fulfillment and customer service – from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day (Jan. 1, 2026). We will resume regular operations on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. The storefront will open that day at 10 a.m.
So if you order an item on our website between Christmas and New Year, it will be fulfilled on or after Jan. 2, 2026.
This year has been a wild one for all of us at Lost Art Press, and we decided to give everyone a week off (with full pay), to recover and enjoy some slow time before 2026.
Here we have one of my seven-stick comb-back chairs set up for lounging by the fire. It is finished with earth pigments, purified linseed oil and soft wax. This is the chair form shown on the cover of “The Stick Chair Book: 2nd Revised Edition.”
I’m selling this chair for $1,900 via a random drawing; details are below. That price includes crating and shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. But first, some details on the chair.
This chair is ideal for relaxing by a fire. The back sticks tilt at 20°, with the seat tilted an additional 5°. The seat is 16-5/8” off the floor at the pommel, but I am happy to cut that down for shorter sitters.
Like all my chairs, this one is assembled with animal glue, which allows for easy repairs in the (far away) future. All joints are glued and wedged with local hickory for strength.
The chair’s finish is one I developed so the chair will immediately look at home among antiques or in an older home. The chair is colored with earth pigments – soot from the fire and red dirt from Ercolano, Italy. Before the pigment bonds with the wood, I gently wipe away some of the pigment on the seat, arm and combs. This is to suggest some age on the chair, but it is not intended to fool anyone. It’s just too subtle.
After the pigment and oil has polymerized, I coat the chair in soft wax to provide some sheen and some protection. The finish is entirely non-toxic.
Like all my chairs, the parts are shaped and fitted using hand tools. That means the surfaces are smooth where they contact the body and a bit textured on the underside from the hand tools. This is how these chairs were made, it’s how they have always looked and it would be odd to sand the secondary surfaces to a mirror.
How to Buy the Chair
I’m selling this chair for $1,900 via a random drawing. That price includes everything – shipping and crating to anywhere in the lower 48. If you wish to buy the chair, send an email to lapdrawing@lostartpress.com before 3 p.m. (Eastern) on Friday, December 12. Please use the subject line: “Stick chair.” In the email please include your:
U.S. shipping address
Daytime phone number (this is for the trucking quote only)
If you are the “winner” the chair will be shipped to your door. The price includes the crate and all shipping charges. There are no additional charges. Alternatively, the chair can be picked up at our storefront. (I’m sorry but the chair cannot be shipped outside the U.S.)
This large but airy Windsor is a reproduction of a circa 1735 example that may be the earliest recorded Windsor chair. It’s unlike any British Windsor I’ve seen before, with simple turned strut legs, a fully carved seat (even underneath) and a comb that’s shaped like an entablature.
I’m selling this chair via silent auction; details are below. The bidding price includes crating and shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. But first, some details on the chair.
The single-board seat is 24” x 16”, making it 25 percent wider than my stick chairs. The honey locust seat is carved out with an adze, scorp and travisher to a remarkable 1-1/2” depth. Then the underside of the seat is also fully carved, even below the pommel, to create the illusion of a very thin seat.
The legs are red oak and have dead-straight grain for strength. The tenons are larger than normal to make the joints more durable. All the joints in the chair are glued with animal glue (which is reversible for repairs) and wedged with hickory.
Above the seat, the arm is red oak and steam-bent, allowing it to be quite thin. The sticks are just under 1/2” in diameter and are made of dead-straight red elm so they are flexible and strong.
And the comb is red oak and decorated with a bead that is scratched in by hand.
The chair is set up for all-around use, and is comfortable for dining, keyboarding and reading by the fire. The seat is 17” high (measured from the pommel). But I am happy to cut it down to accommodate shorter sitters.
Like all my chairs, all the parts are shaped and fitted using hand tools. That means the surfaces are smooth where they contact the body and a bit coarse on the underside. This is how these chairs were made, it’s how they have always looked and it would be odd to sand the secondary surfaces to a mirror.
The chair is finished with soft wax, a safe and chair-friendly finish. It looks better with age and is easily repaired in the future by adding some additional soft wax.
All in all, this is a remarkable chair – comfortable, lightweight and pleasant to look at.
How to Buy the Chair
I’m selling this chair via a silent auction with the minimum bid being $500. The price you bid will include everything – shipping and crating to anywhere in the lower 48. If you wish to buy the chair, send an email to lapdrawing@lostartpress.com before 3 p.m. (Eastern) on Friday, December 12. Please use the subject line: “Lincolnshire chair.” In the email please include:
Your bid
U.S. shipping address
Daytime phone number (this is for the trucking quote only)
If you are the highest bidder, the chair will be shipped to your door. The price includes the crate and all shipping charges. There are no additional charges. Alternatively, the chair can be picked up at our storefront. (I’m sorry but the chair cannot be shipped outside the U.S.)
Note: Plans and patterns for this chair will be in The Stick Chair Journal No. 3, which will be out in January 2026.
This is your chance to ask Chris about the “south mouth” on the Lincolnshire chair (shown above at left and back) – though that chair is the subject of the next Stick Chair Journal, which will be out early next year.
Our last 2025 Open Wire – your chance to post any and all woodworking questions and get answers from Chris, me and fellow readers – is this Saturday from around 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Eastern. (And this time, it’ll be mostly Chris during the day, as I’ll be teaching a Dutch tool chest class, and will chime in as time and necessity allows.
The Open Wire dates for 2026 are: February 28 April 18 June 20 August 8 October 19 December 12
We’re fairly confident that the last day to get your order placed at lostartpress.com in time for Christmas delivery is December 14 (this Sunday). Why 10 days out? Because we’re a small staff and can only pack only so many orders in a day (plus, of course, the carriers are swamped right now).
That might change by a day or two if things go well – but to ensure Christmas delivery, we recommend placing any orders in our online store by Sunday.
