Iconic Design – Wharton Esherick

Posted June 12, 2013

We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations.

Now that the June 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is off the newsstand, I’m free to share one of my favorite articles from it (for the no doubt very few of you who read this blog but don’t read the magazine).

It’s Chuck Bender’s piece on Wharton Esherick. Not only does Chuck do a great job of introducing this iconic figure of art and woodworking (and woodworking artistry), his surprising affinity with Esherick’s work is, quite simply, lovely.

Plus, I’ve admired Esherick’s library stairs since I was in pigtails. (And now, I might actually be able to build them…the stairs, not the pigtails.)

Read the article – free – here:
EsherickJune13

The August 2013 issue mailed just moments ago (2:22 p.m. EDT, June 12) to digital subscribers and should be arriving beginning later this week to print subscribers (you can see the cover now on our Facebook page).

— Megan Fitzpatrick

p.s. To find out what else is in the June issue that I’m not giving away for free (sorry, gotta buy cat food), visit our Online Extras page for the issue at popularwoodworking.com/jun13.

Product Recommendations

Here are some supplies and tools we find essential in our everyday work around the shop. We may receive a commission from sales referred by our links; however, we have carefully selected these products for their usefulness and quality.

Megan Fitzpatrick