Pleasure To Seat You

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Pleasure To Seat You

Full-service caning and seat weaving shop for antique, heirloom, vintage, and modern furniture. Located in Lexington, Virginia.

01/14/2025

A few projects from the latter half of ‘24.

08/13/2024

Really cool Hitchcock set with silhouettes and the homes of 4 of the most notable U.S. Presidents.

06/21/2024

Been working to get caught up on work after standing the house. Here are a couple of projects from this past month.

05/26/2024

Well, 5 weeks and ~450 man hours later, all the framing, sheathing, and waterproofing is on.
All the windows openings were boarded over for weather proofing but will be cut out once the units arrive.

04/23/2024

Big phase coming to completion with the standing of the timber frame. My deepest thanks to the folks who volunteered to help, especially Ross from and big brother

12/16/2023

A beautiful set of banister backs from ~1780 done with natural rush.

These cattails were cut in late July and set to dry for 6 weeks before being soaked for 12 hours to then be twisted and woven into the pattern.
The leaves of the cattails are usually 4-6 feet long so it takes about a full armload (about 50 plants) of cattails to weave just one seat. The bases of the plants are saved and used to stuff the voids in the 4 triangles of the seat, this helps the seat remain firm and tight.
There were many really interesting details in these chairs; the bannisters were not uniform and each had their own quirks and details, several of the tenon shoulders were coved to fit against the round of the legs. My favorite detail about them was how light they were, only about 5-7 pounds even with the seat on.

09/12/2023

Full dinner set of shaker-style chairs on their way home to
Always fun having a bunch of fiber rush projects in the shop.

08/07/2023

We met of at the this past May.
She sent us home with these three gorgeous 18th century Italian made chairs.
The first pictured is from a set of 6 made in ~1740.
The second pictured had a cracked frame that needed repair before the seat was woven. The corners on this one are really interesting how they pass horizontally through the legs.

08/01/2023

We made a house call to yesterday to patch a hole in the back of this awesome 18th century parlor piece.

07/21/2023

We’ve taken the last month and focused on our house project trying to get our floor system and backfilling completed. We’re hoping to have the roof up by Christmas.

06/06/2023

Our bee yard has quickly grown over the past month. We added a captured swarm as well as two colonies that we were asked to remove from a residence. Harvested the honey from our mature colony as well which yielded 3 gallons of honey. We have a little surplus so if you would like a pint or two let us know!
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05/18/2023

All set up and ready to go for the tomorrow and Saturday!

Address

Kerrs Creek, VA
24450

Telephone

+15402047344

Website

https://www.pleasuretoseatyou.com/

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