I’ve always been fascinated by and loved the Scandinavian, specifically the Danish Modern furniture from the 1940s-1960s, now called “Mid-Century furniture.”
Danish Modern furniture is usually made out of teak wood, with smooth, clean lines, and is actually quite comfortable furniture to sit on.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s, my family had a lot of the Mid-Century Danish furniture.
We had the dining room suite with its table and matching chairs, china hutch, a coffee table, several end tables, chairs, a couch, a credenza, lamps, and then, of course, the matching rugs and other accessories.
Caleb James Danish Modern Furnituremaker
And although I’ve done my share of restoration, weaving the seats and backs on this furniture, my work is nothing compared to the craftsmanship of furniture maker and seat weaver Caleb James of Kapel Designs in Greenville, South Carolina.
Besides making his own Danish Modern furniture, Caleb also weaves all the chair seats!
I happened to stumble on his YouTube channel a while ago and subscribed right away.
I was especially drawn to the rush weaving pattern using the Danish cord in the trapezoidal chairs he builds, and has done on the chair seats he restores.
Caleb has a six-part video series on just how to weave these interesting chair seats.
The topic of how to weave these particular rush seats comes up frequently as a discussion thread between my peers and new weavers.
So Caleb’s video series showing just exactly how to weave them will be very beneficial to all our weavers.
In his six-part Danish Cord Rush Weaving video series, he’s weaving on the Wegner #37, which is the one that our weavers are so baffled by.
Be sure to watch, rate, and subscribe to Caleb’s YouTube Channel to see everything from this very talented furniture maker and chair seat weaver!
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Happy Weaving, until next time!
What do you charge for Danish chairs? Trying to get a sense to charge in Melbourne Florida.
Thank you, Dean
Hi Dean,
Thanks for leaving a comment about what to charge for Danish modern cord repair. I have an older outdated Charges & Pricing page that you could use for reference and then up the charge to today’s costs. But if you are wondering about what Caleb James, the focus of this blog post charges, you will need to contact him directly.
P.S. Since you are doing chair seating for hire now, please consider advertising your business on my National Furniture Repair Directory™. Exposure is great and pricing is very reasonable! Get in now before the price goes up in January!