In 2009 I visited the Rockefeller Preserve in Teton National Park and saw and sat in what looked to me like a very distinctive Adirondack chair. These chairs arranged on the covered porch of the visitor’s center turned out to be the original Adirondack, the 1903 Westport Chair designed by Thomas Lee, a large landowner [...]
Utah Arts Festival Salt Lake City, Utah June 23-26, 2011 Kimball Arts Festival Park City, Utah August 5-7, 2011 Sun Valley Arts Festival Ketchum, Idaho August 12-14 American Craft Exposition Evanston, Illinois August 25-28 Mill Valley Arts Festival September 24-25, 2011 I’ll be attending this show, March 11-13, 2011. Look for me in booth 1309.
I’ll be attending this show, February 24-27, 2011. Look for me in booth 721.
There’s no competition. When it comes to the American Idyll, the hammock and the Adirondack chair are the shoe-in (and shoes-off!) winners. Built for lazing around in, they’re the classic icons of a summer getaway. And they’re both quintessentially American. The hammock, invented by the native inhabitants of the Caribbean, was “discovered” by Columbus on [...]
San Francisco Chronicle ~ Wednesday, August 5, 1992 by Bronwen Hruska … Robert Erickson’s van Muyden chair, an interpretation of a three-legged Norwegian design, has achieved the rank of an objet d’art, residing in the permanent collections of both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Yale Art Gallery. His trademark, a curve [...]
Woodwork Magazine, February 2006 by Robert Erickson My first wood project was a spoon for my mother when I was 22. Transforming a square block of scrap walnut into a graceful, functional ladle was a magical experience for me, and I too was transformed, hooked on the process of making things from this workable and [...]
The Atlantic Monthly | April 2001 by Marshall Jon Fisher When Mike Richter, the New York Rangers’ All-Star goalie, had back problems a couple of years ago, he flew to Los Angeles to see a specialist. He also started spending more time in his handcrafted rocking chair, made by Robert Erickson, a woodworker in Nevada [...]
Los Angeles Times Magazine ~ March 12, 1995 by Michael Webb Chairs are the stars of a new exhibition opening today at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Common Forms, High Art: Three Centuries of American Furniture.” Tables, cabinets, chests and sofas play supporting roles. The 200-plus pieces are drawn from the permanent collection, [...]
Woodwork Magazine, October 1998 by Liese Greensfelder My husband Bob Erickson and I live on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, surrounded by the mixed broadleaf and evergreen forests typical of these mid-elevation foothills. Looking out my living room window on this rainy March morning, I see the materials of [...]
