Masterpiece Chairs

Takaaki Nishikawa is woodworking author and chair researcher. He writes about almost anything wood-related, from chairs and furniture to forests and timber. His previous books include This Chair Is the One!, Encyclopaedia of the Origins of Classic Chairs, Handmade Wooden Stools, Lifelong Wooden Furniture and Vessels, Trees and Wood of Japan, Exploring Wooden Craft and Japan’s Forests and Woodworkers.Shigeru Sakamoto is a woodwork designer and a part-time lecturer in Interior Architecture at the Department of Design at Tokyo Zokei University. After training as a furniture maker at Gotanda Seisakusho, he joined D-Sign (now Carl Hansen & Søn Japan) in 1990. He left in 2014 to found Sim Design. He won the Grand Prize at the Wooden Chairs for Everyday Life Exhibition in 1998 and took the Factory Craft Category Grand Prix at the Takaoka Craft Competition in 2015. He is the co-author of The Secrets of the Y Chair.

• 2 Introduction6 Dismantling The Chair (JH501)18 Dismantling, Assembling, and Reweaving the Y Chair30 Removing Bear Chair Upholstery (AP19)42 Dismantling and Restoring JH50454 Dismantling and Restoring CH2366 Stripping Finn Juhl No.45 to Frame 78 Removing Leather Upholstery from Finn Juhl No.4688 Dismantling and Restoring Finn Juhl No.48100 Removing Egg Chair’s Leather Upholstery112 Dismantling the Superleggera124 Dismantling and Restoring Eva136 Dismantling and Restoring a J.L. Møller No.77 with a Broken Front Leg148 Disassembling and Assembling FD130158 Disassembling and Assembling Safari Chair166 Disassembling and Assembling the Siesta174 Dismantling and Assembling the MK Chair182 Dismantling and Restoring Paper Cord Woven “Folding Chair”192 Dismantling and Restoring the Series 7 Chair204 References205 Afterword