Stone's Stool
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Stool designed by noted American Architect Edward Durell Stone and manufactured by Fulbright Furniture circa 1945.
Simple render in KT. 2 lights. -
Real nice!
Nice render also. -
are the legs tenoned ?
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I would make them that way though at the time they might have been doweled. Doweled joints were popular in modern furniture at the time and up into the 60s. The original I worked from is priced at $3800. I wasn't about to buy it to take it apart. I wasn't about to buy it even to leave it together, though.
Thank you, John.
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Beautiful!
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Wow, I've never seen that piece Dave - stunning! I do wonder though about the dowel v's tenon treatment!
Amazing how much old pieces like this are sold for! I found two old 1951 Douglas Snelling chairs at a fete, picked them up for $3.00. Out of the two I salvaged one in great repair which only then needed the webbing replaced (Rison style). Saw two recently (very poorly re-webbed) for $2500 each.
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Thanks Richard. You had good fortune with those chairs, then.
As to the dowels, that's purely a guess on my part although maybe an educated one. I have a copy of an old book that shows construction methods for modern furniture along with dimensioned "plans" for quite a few pieces. By far, the most common joinery method shown is dowels. I know they had machines back then to drill multiple holes at the same time and holes would be a lot easier and faster to drill than cutting mortises and tenons. I think mortise and tenon joinery would be stronger and if I were building it, that's what I would use. Well, I might use the Festool Domino and loose tenon joinery.
I found that the slats are held in position on the dowels with screws driven in from below. This would make it quick and easy to assemble in a factory setting.
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