Ye Olde Chair

Young industrial designer James Rennick’s Hedge Chair. It comes standard with a reading light and lamp shade, and an ottoman. It looks sturdy and I suspect it of being comfortable. To further connect it to traditional Irish hedge chairs, it’s made from salvaged wood. What is a traditional Irish hedge chair? Well I’m glad you asked, because I had to look it up. According to the Center for Traditional Skills located in the Old Railway station of Lismore, Ireland (roughly here), a hedge chair is “a slab seated chair, often made by a hedge carpenter or householder, from local timbers.” Seriously, Wikipedia doesn’t have anything on hedge chairs. I nominate James Rennick to write the article.

What James has done here, as he helpfully explains on his website, is marry the old and the new. His chair hearkens back to a much simpler, much rougher time in Ireland’s history, but remains relevant to the present. Though really, a place to put your ass is always relevant, isn’t it?