ひと言
One chair. Ash, four legs, two stretchers, no glue, no metal. Seat 450 mm. I'll make five, sit on each for a month, then remove whatever I didn't miss. Photograph the five side by side, underside up.
A table from the 1600s: four legs, two stretchers. Nothing to remove. I measure it every time I visit.
A drawer, alone, out of its cabinet. Dovetails you were never meant to see. The best part of the piece.
Build it, live with it, remove one part a week until something breaks. Put the last part back. That's the design.
450 mm. Measured in 1760, 1900, and this morning. Every chair that ignores it is sculpture. Sculpture is fine; call it that.
Wood from one tree, air-dried. Joinery only: wedged through-tenons.