Tage Frid
Three-Legged Stool, 1983
American black walnut.
The three-legged stool was one of Frid’s most successful and iconic designs and one he used as an example in the volume dedicated to furniture making. While sitting on a fence at a horse show, Frid was inspired to explore the minimal amount of structure needed to support a grown human. The result was a stool with a seat sixteen inches wide and six inches deep. The stool was made in three heights; this example is the low height. A fastidious craftsman, Frid’s stool exhibits a range of construction techniques: the back and seat are sawn and shaped; the back is dovetailed to the seat; the legs and stretchers are shaved; and the legs are through-tenoned to the seat. SIGNED AND DATED 1983 Danish-born craftsman Tage Frid influenced generations of American craftsmen though his woodworking courses and his three-volume Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, which has been in continuous publication since 1979.
Tage frid (1915-2004) was a Danish-born woodworker, Frid had an inestimable influence on the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States. “Without a doubt, Frid represents the single greatest influence on American woodworking education today,” writes Michael A. Stone, author of Contemporary American Woodworkers. According to the famed woodworker, Jere Osgood, “It’s reached a point where most of the people teaching in wood programs on the East Coast are either students of Frid or students of his students. We in turn pass on his ideas, consciously and unconsciously, to our own students.”
| Dimensions | 11 × 16 × 21.25 in |
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| Date | 1983 |
