These chairs, dubbed "Chair Agricole", I designed and built for the restaurant Bar Agricole, which opened in August of 2010. The restaurant is located at 11th and Folsom (http://www.baragricole.com/). The owner, Thad Vogler, is a cocktail specialist known for creating the bar and drink menus at The Slanted Door, Beretta, the Presidio Social Club, Coco 500 and Jardiniere.
Vogler's own restaurant, featuring a chef from Zuni Cafe, emphasizes wine and spirits. International glass sculptor, Nikolas Weinstein, has created a three-part hanging glass installation for the main dining room. The walls are made of reclaimed white oak from old whiskey barrels, as are the chairs built from cabernet-stained white oak barrels previously owned by Firestone Vineyard in Napa Valley.
For those of you who remember the chairs I built for Bar Agricole restaurant, I still have a few staves of the oak wine barrels left. I used some of the wood to make these earrings for the lovely Céline Alwyn as a gift. Photographs by Mikey Siegal. Thanks Mikey!
I apologize for my long vacation from the blog world. But I am back, and I intend on sticking around. Here is a cool picture of me burning a frame for a client who requested a charred, black frame to compliment a photograph of his. I also made him a shadow-box frame out of reclaimed white oak and with finger joints.
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