New Backrest for a Danish Teak Chair

 

Not having a whole lot of dimensional teak I went with a similar looking wood, red oak. Planed it from 3/4 inch down to just under three eights inch. The customer will finish the piece as they see fit. Groovy original fabric, don’t you think?

Traced out and remove the extra wood, round it over the edges with a tiny spokeshave. 

Started matching the stain color after comparing similarities between the original.

Steamed it bent it over a tire that happened to be just the right arc, hence the black tread pattern. 

Glued into place. 

Preview to a Door

Here is a snapshot of a new door that is coming out of the shop. This is the door just before it received a fresh coat of black paint. The fresh paint needs to dry completely before the glass goes in. 

Axes for the Wall

 

  Following the hipster return to the tried and true FilliQuist took some time to remake some axes that is had procured. After cleaning up the heads and handles, replacing as needed some paint was carefully applied in individual patterns to allow the axes to be kept out in the open instead of being hidden away with the other tools. I really like these and will have a hard time letting them sell at the Filliquist store!

Not Germany but close...

I think I had socks like this in the 80's...

I might keep this one so go buy it before I remove it from our store!

A Cut Above

  I had a large volume of oak scraps in the shop and instead of putting them to the fire as many might I used their unique shapes to dictate the final form. They turned out great and are going to last a long time and are sure to serve all the kitchens they have the fortune to end up in very well.

Who said a cutting board had to be a rectangular slab?

Live Edge Bed

  Here is a little project that I put together from an Aspen tree that I had cut into planks at the local sawmill. The bedposts were cut with a bandsaw from the cores of the upper portions of the felled Aspen. The headboard, footboard, and side rails are live edge pieces of Aspen wood. The bed posts show just a hint of natural edge.
  The Aspen is really nice since it doesn't yellow quite the same way that pine can and it has a nice soft wide grain with those darker contrasting knots. In the right light you can even see some ripples in the wood. The color of the footboard in the pictures above and below is the true color of the wood.
  The bed is a queen size mattress is topped with a nice memory foam mattress with a wool pile mattress cover and a nice down comforter. I still haven't slept on it yet but I hear it is really comfortable!

Headboard detail

Even closer detail

Full view of the headboard

Oh Blog How I Neglect Thee...

Please forgive my absence. Again. Again. It will be argued that I may be a better father than blogger (doesn't he look happy?). Either way I have not stopped working.
  That being said, here is a fire basket, or eldkorg in swedish, to be used outside on those cold winter days while you decorate your home for the holiday season or watch family games on the lawn.

 As for use in Sweden, we like to put them at the end of our driveway to mark our house so that friends don't miss the driveway when coming over for festivities after dark (about 4pm or so). They can be purchased for 1200 kr (about $150 USD). If your are thinking, "gosh, why so much?", it is because this is the last basket you will need to buy as is welded solid, no screws or other nonsense, and is made from 10mm (3/8") steel and will not rust and fall apart after two years.

See it works!

Happy New Year! A Surprise! And a Gift!

   Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year  from FilliQuist! Many new things are coming out from the studio. A new bed, a candle holder specifically for burning stubs of candles, a mobile (the kind that hangs overhead), a new table (or two!), and some new lighting.

  Also I would like to introduce my first born child, Ellis Muir Filliquist! Born in October, he has been keeping my wife and I very busy!

  And finally a little gift! For those times you need some white noise, the sounds of nature, or something to distract you from the hectic world around you, check out Noisli.com! You can use the app right form the home page or download it from the Apple store. Enjoy!

Mid Century Barn Find Has Surgery and Makes a Comeback

   When collecting windows for a greenhouse project to be completed next summer I found these cabinets neglected in a barn. They had 15+ years of dirt and dust on them and, unfortunately, their little legs and feet were beginning to melt into the mud and needed to be amputated.
   After a thorough cleaning and a little surgery, the two mid century style boxes were fitted with a shared prosthetic...

The Magnus

   A little something out of the shop. It comes from a design that a friend found, apparently it had already been purchased and he wanted it. So a replication was in order.
 The frame is made of solid steel 3/4 inch (19mm) square rod. The top is butcher block oak that has been fumed and then finished with an antique recipe that I have been dying to try for years. It came out amazing! The middle shelf is zinc coated sheet metal that has been given a nice black patina. All of the metal is waxed to seal it from any corrosion and protect the steel for many years.
  There are more detailed pictures (click on to magnify) after the jump:

I Am Not a Storyteller, I Am a Designer

  While at a recent conference or whatever you want to call it- a convention really- I was asking different people of the design industry what they saw as important for breaking into the design industry and getting a business moving, growing, breathing! Anything!!  Of all the BS remarks that I can't even remember there was one that really got under my skin. They said, "you need to tell a story...." Whhhaaaaatttt? So now that I design, manage, produce, sell, and finance my little world now I have to become a what? A storyteller? Like J.R. Tolkin? David Sedaris? Rudyard Kipling? What are storytellers known for designing that we are sitting on, talking/texting on, playing, or otherwise using today?
Nothing. That's what.

Rant over.

 Then I saw this video and realized I wasn't so alone in the world. I am so happy, I am going back to designing!

You are not a storyteller - Stefan Sagmeister @ FITC from FITC on Vimeo.