We are honored and thrilled to welcome Roy Underhill to the Lost Art Press storefront on Saturday where he will sign books and willingly accept your adoration. As you know, Roy is the host of “The Woodwright’s Shop” and runs classes at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C. He also is the author of a…
UPDATE: BOTH ARE SOLD With “The Stick Chair Book” off to press, I need to clear out the workshop of chairs I built for the book. Most have already gone to customers, but I have two prototypes that I hope to sell. Both of these chairs are original designs, are signed, sit well and are…
A bed built under the post-war Utility Furniture scheme in England. On display at the Cheltenham museum. Perhaps one of the most testing times of furniture-making was that of war time and the immediately following years, when utility furniture came into being. Certain restrictions had to be placed on the methods of construction and the…
We have more Crucible Type 2 Dividers in the warehouse and ready to ship. And we have another batch in the pipeline. Dividers are $120 plus domestic shipping. Also, we have a second run of “The Family Tree of Chairs” letterpress posters in the works. These will be printed in glorious PMS 364 U (aka…
Katherine has cooked up another big batch of Soft Wax 2.0, a safe and beautiful finish that I use on all my chairs and much of my casework. It is available for sale in her etsy store. Katherine makes the wax in our machine room using a waterless process and then packages it in durable…
It’s now been a year since I closed my public email address, which is probably the biggest life change for me since Lucy and I had kids or I quit my job. As a result of the extra time granted me, I finally finished “The Anarchist’s Design Book” and we have two more books about…
To make things simpler for customers (and ourselves), we have built in the shipping costs to our prices for all domestic orders. That means when something costs $25 in the store, that is the total price you will pay for it to be delivered via FedEx SmartPost anywhere in the United States. To make this…
My daughter Katherine has just put some jars of Soft Wax 2.0 up for sale in her etsy.com store. These jars are left over from the Lost Art Press Open Day last week. So it’s not as big a batch as usual. This is the finish I use on my chairs. She cooks it up…
We dug up a few boxes of sweatshirts and T-shirts and are offering them in the Lost Art Press store at a significant discount. Last year we started using a fulfillment service to print our shirts and sweatshirts, which is why you can offer them in a wide variety of sizes and colors. Before that…
We are slowly removing the evidence that our storefront was once a purple-and-glitter womb of wacky architecture. One of the things we have been working on are the HVAC registers and returns. Today Megan installed a new cold-air return that she had made by Thane Lorbach, a local laser shop. The original grille was beat…