Shaker-style Rocking Chair

Made by Chris and Fen Tyler at the workshop of Gerwyn Lewis in Lightmoor, Telford. Our thanks to Gerwyn for his expert guidance, supervision and practical assistance.

The chair is made from ash. The legs and spindles were formed using rounder planes and the slats were steam bent. Danish Oil was used for the final finish.

The design (Mount Lebanon Chair No. 7) comes from “Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware”, Ejner Handberg.

“Why patronize the out side world or gugaws in manufactures, when they say we have enough of them abroad? We want a good plain substantial Shaker article, yea, one that bears credit to our profession & tells who and what we are, true and honest before the world, without hypocrisy or any false covering. The wourld at large can Scarcely keep pace with it self in its stiles and fashions which last but a short time, when something still more worthless or absurd takes its place. Let good enough alone, and take good common sense for our guide in all our persuits, and we are safe within and without”  Orren Haskins, Mount Lebanon, 1849
(Quoted from “Shaker Style, Form, Function and Furniture” Sharon Duane Koomler)