Miniature Rustic Twig Furniture by George C. Clark: A Table and More Chairs

I make my furniture from twigs and Lake Michigan driftwood, shells, stones, bark, seed pods and other natural materials. The challenge is to fabricate objects that require a certain form and symmetry, like chairs, for example, out of materials that are by nature randomly and organically shaped. I seek out the gnarliest twigs and pieces of driftwood, the curved, forked or twisted ones, because they make the most interesting furniture. No two of my chairs are ever alike in construction, although they are all identical in function. They embody the spirit of rustic design by using found or natural materials instead of manufactured ones, and at the same time evoke the many folk tales and legends of the little people of the forest. I have a lot of fun making them.

The little tables' tops are 5 inches above the surface they are standing on, and the chairs are scaled in proportion to that size.

You can email me at gcc@georgecclark.com

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A Table and More Chairs

Miniature driftwood high-backed chair and agate-topped table by George C. Clark

Miniature twig high-backed armchair by George C. Clark

Miniature driftwood side chair by George C. Clark

High-backed driftwood chair for Abe Martin by George C. Clark

Abe Martin cartoons from 1911 by Kin Hubbard

I named that last chair after the newspaper comics character created a hundred years ago by Kin Hubbard of Indianapolis. I could just picture old Abe on a chair like that down in Brown County.