This chair evolved out of a request from a client for chairs inspired by the designs of the Arts and Crafts artist Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. One particular Mackmurdo chair of the 1880's was a seminal work of the emerging Art Nouveau period, and was coincidentally on tour with the Art Nouveau Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I traveled to the show to view the chair, and this design is a contemporary adaptation from the original.
The manufacturing process for this chair was as intriguing as the design, which resulted in its publication in Fine Woodworking Magazine in 2002.
