An unsung master
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One reason I enjoy woodworking: the shop is a politics-free zone, a place out of range of demonstrators' chants, politicians' dissemblings, and TV anchors' rantings. But in reality, the shop is never far from the real world. For instance, the English Arts & Crafts movement was as political as it was esthetic, a reaction to the growing industrialization in the nineteenth century.
So I was very pleased to read an article on FineWoodworking.com that brought the current turmoil over racial prejudice into view for woodworkers in a subtle but effective way. The author, Bob Miller, discussed a masterful and influential cabinetmaker named Thomas Day, who happened to be black. The article was a reminder that lives like Day's matter, and that it's long past time to give them their due.
You can read the article here:
https://www.finewoodworking.com/2020/06/26/its-time-thomas-day-took-his-place-alongside-townsend-phyfe-and-the-others
The model is my quick take on the Thomas Day settee featured in the article. -
Very nice work as usual.
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That looks like a royalist inspired couch!!!
Oh, politics free. Excellent job! And thanks for the background. History is good for us.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
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Excellent
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I love it - like the title "An unsung master"
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Thanks again.
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