Audio Slideshow: “Saddle Shoes”

March 20 · Audio Slideshows, Furniture Designs · chairs, innovation, new designs, saddle shoes

Polarity was a theme that took off as a result of the Martian Dice crap game. Wood has such bipolar visual divergence, the most pronounced being ebony against sitka spruce. Not your best combination for furniture, each being prized for its musical instrument qualities and hyper-rare. However, our Eastern mountains are replete with maple and black walnut. Not a bad ride…The line designed itself, jumping from one piece to the next almost instantaneously. It is a lot easier to channel than to labor, so I went with it. Once they were a family, I hit upon the problem of what to do with those pesky little glider pads that go under furniture. Nothing really works… wood blocks, felt, silicone discs. And then came the shoemaker’s art and the perfect solution. The little leather heel that meets the road beneath every good pair of walkers and stilettos on the planet. A never fail solution and just what a good pair of saddle shoes needs.