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 [...]
Woodwork Magazine ~ May/June 1993 by Glenn Gordon Bob Erickson built his first chairs in the post-and-rung style of the old chairs that sit on the porches of sheriffs’ offices and country general stores. Something in the chamfering and the lines of the backslats and headrails of those early chairs resembles the printers’ typefaces and [...]
#2 van Muyden Chair, Robert Erickson by Kari M. Main Published by Yale University Art Gallery, 1999 The chair was inspired by a trip to Norway that Robert Erickson took with his wife in 1977, during which he studied the locally built chairs of Scandinavia. Erickson was fascinated by the farm-made chairs he saw in [...]
Edited by John Kelsey and Rick Mastelli Published by The Furniture Society, 1999 Bob Erickson lives and works on a homestead in Northern California remote enough to require a generator to produce his electricity. It is a lovely spot, graced by a house, shop, solar wood kiln, and other amenities Erickson and his wife, Liese [...]
