Poppies Porch

I didn’t start out making outdoor furniture to sell. I simply wanted to create a place where my wife and I could sit by our birch trees and watch the ducks play in the pond near our Margate home.

We needed chairs we could spend some time in: chairs that supported our shoulders and backs, chairs that did not lean too far back, chairs that did not cut into the back of our knees. I also needed chairs that wouldn’t blow away in one of our feisty Island breezes.

Starting with an Adirondack-style, I spent two years building ten prototypes that I tried out on friends and family. Finally, I crafted the comfortable and sturdy chair I wanted, and I built four for our yard…