Attending the Come Up To My Room exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel this weekend, I came upon the work of Covello Reesor.

This furniture designing duo presented an exhibit called, The Common Chair, featuring the chair you see above.

Their inspiration? The furniture traditions established by early Ontario pioneers and craftspeople. To re-create this timeless “common chair” design, they collected scraps of hardwood from Toronto area studios and manufacturers and got to work the old fashioned way. Each chair (there are 40) is assembled at random and, therefore, unique.

Filed under: local tradition on February 25th, 2007