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MCM Wormley Circular Desk circa 1950

Dunbar created the Circular Desk, shown above, before treatment.  It was designed in the fifties by Edward Wormley, AIA, 1907-1995.  The teak desk had its original leather intact, a real find!  The desk is teak wood with built-in bookshelves, and … Continue reading

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W is for Windsor: A-to-Z Challenge

One of my favorite chairs, this often overlooked Windsors may have originated in Wales, Ireland and England, where wheelwrights creating chairs as they made wheel spokes, which were chairs using compression tension joints, with no hide glue holding the spokes … Continue reading

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