Maureen Lauterbach, who owns Etsy shop RavenRage, first purchased this wrought iron and wood rocking chair in Anchorage, Alaska about 20 years ago. It was from a little shop going out of business. Maureen says it then sat in her doll cabinet for all those years until I acquired it. I love it because it’s very well-made, and from the same materials that could create the larger chair. It’s not just sturdy but it has a rock-solid presence. It may be small, but has the presence of a boulder—sort of reminds me of certain tiny paintings; if you hang up such a painting on a large wall by itself, it still, as they say, “holds up the wall!” That’s this chair:
Here it is recontextualized in my home, by a bedside lamp and wooden sculpture--such a presence!
[Prov.: Maureen Lauterbach/RavenRage on Etsy, purchased 12/2012. Scale: 5"x6"]
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