“A real rogue. He would come ‘round the pubs selling bits of furniture for beer money. For fun, he puts four metal caps from beer bottles between his fingers and crushes them flat. He went into town for a Chinese meal and ordered steak. The steak was tough so he complained. The waiter said it was fine, so Maxie went out to his car, got a chainsaw, came back into the restaurant and sawed through the steak, plate and table. That was Maxie.”
Like all of Maxie Lane’s furniture, this chair was made from a single piece of timber, no joins. Hewed in Andover where Lane, a local hellraiser, lived until 104, its low, compact shape preserves the original form of its timber through curves, hollows and a tailing back. The wood shows signs of age and has been freshly re-waxed.
“A real rogue. He would come ‘round the pubs selling bits of furniture for beer money. For fun, he puts four metal caps from beer bottles between his fingers and crushes them flat. He went into town for a Chinese meal and ordered steak. The steak was tough so he complained. The waiter said it was fine, so Maxie went out to his car, got a chainsaw, came back into the restaurant and sawed through the steak, plate and table. That was Maxie.”
Like all of Maxie Lane’s furniture, this chair was made from a single piece of timber, no joins. Hewed in Andover where Lane, a local hellraiser, lived until 104, its low, compact shape preserves the original form of its timber through curves, hollows and a tailing back. The wood shows signs of age and has been freshly re-waxed.
