Craftsman Style Rocking Chair – Elm

This rocking chair is available for purchase. Please contact me to enquire about details.

For over twenty year, Paul Sellers has made and taught students how to make this rocking chair which he adapted from another in the Craftsman Style from the Arts and Crafts period. You can read more about that and why it means so much to him here. In the past, he has made it out of other woods such as oak and walnut, but this is the only one to ever have been made out of elm; a long-standing favourite for chair makers due to its tight interlocking grain. It is also the first one to feature laminated rockers like Paul’s more recent rocking chair he designed for Sellers Home.

As can be seen in the photo below, the corbels are made exactly to Paul’s original rocking chair design. He eventually replaced them for a simpler shape because apparently, students would take excessively long to make them using hand tools.

Description

Rocking chair in figured elm, made in the Craftsman Style. Laminated rockers made from oak (top layer elm). Upholstery grade leather used for the seat, highly padded. Seat can be easily removed for occasional wiping.

Finished in clear shellac, applied by hand. Buffed with furniture wax.