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Exeter Update (More Hammers Tomorrow)
I’ve made a few hundred chairs during the last 21 years, and I feel like I’m just getting the hang of it.
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Christopher Schwarz
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For Paid Subscribers Only
The first 100 Exeter hammers are now for sale on our website here. They are $133, and the first 100 hammers are numbered.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Come See the Chair Show on Nov. 23
I’ve never shown my work in a gallery.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Not Unnatural
As soon as I hear a musician using Auto-Tune, I have to turn the song off.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Earlywood: ‘Experto Crede’
Publisher’s note: Welcome to Earlywood, where we talk about all sorts of tingles and throbs.
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Christopher Schwarz
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New Class with Jerome Bias
We’ve just added a new class: Build an 18th-century Southern Table with Jerome Bias – and our Substack readers are the first to hear about it.
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Megan Fitzpatrick
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10 Dismembered Hands (No Charge)
I’m always designing new hands for my stick chairs.
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Christopher Schwarz
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September 2024

vs. Entropy
Two weeks ago, I toured a property for sale on Greenup Street that was (to my mind) priced inexplicably low.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Earlywood: Shaken Beliefs
Publisher’s note: Good morning and welcome to Earlywood, a free excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Exeter Hammer Update 2
We thought we had everything we needed to assemble the first 100 hammers, but we were mistaken.
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Christopher Schwarz
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'Principles of Design' is Shipping
Finally.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Make a Chair from a Dump
I often think of my chairs as the offspring of both the American continent and the people who now inhabit it, from its first people to the people who…
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Christopher Schwarz
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