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Canada's Rustic furniture Makers
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Al Mierau
Stick furniture has been around since man has wanted to sit
down. China paintings from 1000 years ago show rustic stick chairs being used as
furniture. There are many types of pieces, including stick, log, and bentwood.
The bentwood chair can be traced back primarily to Europe. Settlers brought this
design with them when they immigrated to North America.
Dan Vickers
I got the bite seven years ago when I nailed a doll sized hoop chair together.
Since then I've gone to mortise and tendon and scour birch firewood cutting
areas for the branches those "loggers" leave behind. Discarded pallets, rocks,
barn-boards, driftwood, bird and bee nests, pretty much anything goes for
materials. Dan
Alberta, Canada
Dean Spence
Producing distinctive rustic furniture and woodcraft ...
Karl Krause
Unique, Handcrafted and Dynamic Furniture
Since
1992, Karl has been making furniture, working hard at his craft
saying that it is important that his work succeeds on a number
of different levels such as having an aesthetic/artistic
quality, being functional in combination with strength, and
having technical merit.
He credits his wife as an essential part of the
business saying, “she brings wonderful female perspective to
things as well as playing devil's advocate - sometimes I am too
close to the process so she'll come along and point out things I
am not really aware of. She shows me furniture and art from
Japan - bringing Japanese sensibilities to the design.”
Stephanie Dawson
Greg Ani
Connect with your rustic
roots. Enjoy the comfort of willow furniture in your home or garden.
Greg Ani designs and
crafts Willow furniture and rustic furniture objects for the garden and home.
Willow Chairs, benches, birdfeeders and rusticana. He also offers courses and
instruction in Willow Furniture Making based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Jean-François
Demers
| Jean-François Demers
(People call me: Jeff)
19 rue Ste-Angèle App.3 Québec, Québec G1W 4G3, Canada Tél: (418)
694-0692
E-mail:
kudluk@hotmail.com
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Joe Doyle
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I have had a love of the outdoors right from when I was a kid,
married with 2 kids who also love the outdoors, makes feel lucky to
share with them. I feel I grow as an artist with each piece I make,
when I build I feel like I have found my calling. I have always been
envious of people who are artists as I never felt I had it in me no
matter how hard I tried. I worked in a sawmill for 23 years, since
I was seventeen. Very few times did I ever feel that I could look
back at the end of days work and say I did that, job well done.
Son of a Birch,
Joe Doyle
Topley British Columbia
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Joe Kovacs
Branching Out Artistree creates unique handcrafted furnishings which are
inspired by nature. The natural form of branches and the beauty of wood slabs
combine to make functional art. As founder of Branching Out Artistree, I have
been working with wood for 19 odd years & until recently I was making
traditional square furnishings. I love the outdoors, and on my many walks I was
inspired to find a way to recycle the many fallen branches that littered the
ground.
John Melo
We are devoted to producing functional, rustic
objects imbedded with artistic merit and technical integrity.
Our furniture captures the essence of the tree
by allowing its shape, line and texture to shine through in a finished piece.
Kim Vergil
Artist's Statement
I like my work to remember that it comes from the trees, for
example to see the branches that form the forest on the back of a chair. I want
the viewer to be asking themselves: Is this a chair being a tree, Or a tree
being a chair? I strive to keep the work organic in nature, so that you are
always aware of where the materials came from.
Ma Vision
J'aime recréer dans mon travail l'essence de la forêt,
comme voir les branches qui viennent de la forêt sur le dossier de mes chaises.
Je veux que les gens se demandent : Est-ce que c'est une chaise qui veut être
une arbre ou un arbre qui veut être une chaise ? Je me force de préserver une
qualité organique dans mes oeuvres, afin qu'on reconnaisse toujours d'où
viennent les materiaux que j`utilise.
Michael Henry
site being built
Monica Marchuk
Cotton & Willow
Maker's of Fine Quality Rustic Furniture
and Custom Cushions
Calgary, Alberta
Cotton & Willow has
been
creating high quality, environmentally responsible rustic willow furniture since
1988. Our furniture is handcrafted from willow and birch harvested in the
majestic Canadian Rockies. Meticulous care, skillful notching and high quality
hardware ensures that every piece of our rustic willow furniture provides
durable, long-lasting comfort and unique beauty.
Paul
G Skelton
Our Rustic Handcrafted Log Furniture is Custom Made In Ontario Canada,
by well known craftsman Paul G Skelton (
Jerry )
Log Furniture, Log Beds, Canopy Beds, Bunk-beds, Day Beds, Futons,
Clocks, Sofas, Armoires, Dressers, Night Stands, End Tables, Coffee
Tables, Foot Stools, Tables, Chairs, Bench's, Bar Stools, Swings, Picnic
Tables, Mantels, Railings, Wood Crafts
Our quality & craftsmanship is built into each piece of our rustic
log furniture and is built to last a lifetime . No middle man or some
large company to deal with , you are dealing right with the craftsmen
directly Paul G Skelton , we are always trying to keep our prices down &
our quality standards very high .
Unique Rustic Creations is for those individuals
who love to be surrounded by the the warmth and beauty of natural, hand made
materials.
Unique Rustic Creations uses no templates or machinery, such as power copiers,
so you can rest assured that each creation is truly unique and one-of-a-kind.
Nathan Broomfield
Born and raised in the country on the
north shore of lake Ontario, Nathan Broomfield built his first workbench at the
age 11 and his first tree house (two stories with windows and woodstove) at the
seasoned age of 13, igniting his passion for design and building.
After traveling Europe, Nathan ended
up in the Rocky Mountains of western Alberta where his unique style of
furnishing quickly caught the eye of rustic furniture connoisseurs throughout
the region.
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