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Woodchip Chair
 
I often wonder what the Shakers would create from this post-modern situation of over-consumption, and dwindling resources. I do know their solutions would employ an economical use of local materials and local people while focusing on simplicity and utility. I am not sure the Shakers would use plastic but I do think if their work and communities were thriving today they would do something wonderful with their scrap materials. This chair is a plastic bag filled with woodchips. It is a wonderful feeling to build something from a pile of stuff.

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Lee Schuette is working as Instructor & Artist-in-residence at Dalhousie University's School of Architecture.

His furniture and architectural woodwork is available by commission.

Shaker Sister with "I-Shaker" Rocker

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