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is designed and built by three people, and is a cooperative effort with the goal
of making furniture that is strong and beautiful and original. Mark, Walt and
Rob build stools, chairs, benches and small tables using slab and twig all-wood
construction techniques. Each piece is unique. Slab seats or table tops are shaped
and well sanded to reveal the wood's beauty. Twig ,or sapling legs are tenoned
and glued into the slabs and wedged in place. Sometimes the bark is removed from
the legs, other times it looks better on. When complete, each piece is finished
with oil and then either waxed, or polyurethaned. The result is a piece of refined
rustic furniture made of solid hardwood native to Indiana. Wildwood
furniture has its origin in a region of southcentral Indiana where temperate hardwood
trees grow. Many species are native such as black cherry, walnut, hickory, the
oaks, poplar, locust, soft and hard maples, ash, persimmon, and others. In areas
that are cleared, trees naturally re-seed or even re-sprout. The regenerative
force is strong and so there is always sapling and twig material available.
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