Popular Woodworking 2009-06 № 176, страница 53

Dock Chair

BY SIMON WAITS

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Lightweight, folding and portable, this chair is so simple to make you'll want a pair - or more.

% always disliked the Adirondack chair and have chair will sense tchoesof that famous and widely iml-

ncver understood its popularity. I find it uncomfortable tated design.

because the human frame does not bend at right angles What I like to call my "dock chair" requires no special

and also, because it neither folds nor stacks, it's an awk- hardwarcawlcaribemadc with practically any wood, or

ward item to move and difitcult to store. combination of woods, in just a few hour*. Anyone reason-

When my daughter Rebecca showed me a wooden ably handy can nake a pair of them in a weekend, foldingchair she had found in theatticofanoidhousein I made the first version using native pine and red oak

Nova Scotia, I was immediately struck by the ingenuity slats fastened will- bronze screws. I painted it signal yellow

of the design, whkhcombines com foil and convenience, because tlie NovaScotian fogs ate notorious, and I didn't

Anyone familiar with Mies Van der Rohe's Barcelona want to get run diiwn by some errant vessel.