John Krubsack

I want to introduct something about Backgammon Table. Brand new wholesale lot of backgammon table.. These backgammon table are made of 100 % pure rosewood and hand work of brass inlayed.. Backgammon Table Grown by John Krubsack Wisconsin U.S.A. 1919John Krubsack 1919John Krubsack (1858-1941) was a banker from Embarrass, Wisconsin U.S.A. He conceived, planted and shaped living trees to create the first known grown chair. He started his chair in 1903 and harvested 11 years later 1914.Krubsack was also a naturalist who farmed and made cheese, and landscaped his property long before that was a common practice. His house was the first in his whole area to have running water. He also was skilled at piecing together furniture from found branches. He scour the local river flats with a yardstick and a saw looking for just the right shaped piece of blue beech, a hardwood tree with a smooth, wavy bark and a beautiful blue color when varnished. John would take his youngest son Hugo with him on these weekend wood-hunting excursions, and it was during one of his trips that the idea first came to him to grow his own chair.In a letter sent to his nephew Dennis in 1975, Hugo described his father announcement of the living chair: ne day after showing the beech furniture to a friend, a Walter Glen, the president of the F.W.D. Co. at Clintonville, a nearby town, Mr. Glen called the work fantastic. Then here is what I will never forget for [it was] the birth of the grown chair. My father told Glen, ammit, one of these days I am going to grow a piece of furniture that will be better and stronger than any human hands can build. Glen replied, ohn, that I have got to see! a remark I never forgot.1]Quote from John Krubsack; " After I had planted 32 trees all box elders, in the spring of 1907," said Mr Krusback, "I left them to grow in their new home for a year until they were six feet tall, before beginning the chair. In the spring of 1908 I gradually began the work of training the young and pliable stems to grow gradually in the shape of a chair. Most of this work consisted in bending the stems of these trees and tying and grafting them together so as to grow, if possible with all the joints cemented by nature. This was largely an experiment with me and it was with a great deal of interest that I watched and assisted nature in growing piece of furniture.The first summer's growth found all the joints I had made by tying and grafting grown firmly together. Some of the trees I found, however, grew much faster than others. To overcome this, I began to cut the stems of those trees that to my notion had grown large enough. This did not kill these trees but simply retarded their growth so as to give the weaker trees a chance to catch up.In this manner I let these trees grow for seven years. During the last two years I had only four trees growing from the root. These were the four that consisted the legs of the chair and all the other stems kept alive from these four stems because they were grafted to them. After the seventh year all the trees were cut, making in all eleven years from the time the seed was sown until the chair was finally completed"The chair, eventually dubbed the hair That Grew, had its first big public showing in a natural history exhibit at the 1915 World Fair, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held that year in San Francisco, California. Hugo assisted his father in all aspects of the living chair project and went on to promote it in many ways, including contacting Robert Ripley, who ran it in his elieve It or Not column and later filmed John standing beside the chair explaining all about it. The film ran in the weekly newsreels of the time in theaters across the US. The Lloyd Mfg. Co. at the Chicago Furniture Mart subsequently showed the chair during a large trade show for furniture manufacturers. The hair That Grew was displayed on a golden pedestal at the entrance. Krubsack chair garnered many offers (one was $5,000) from would-be buyers over the years, but John, and later Hugo, turned them all down. Hugo had no heirs and simply could not bear to see it in the hands of others. He maintained possession of it until he let his nephew Gerhard A. Krubsack buy it for a token amount to use in advertising his furniture business, Noritage Furniture of Embarrass, Wisconsin.In 1988 the chair was summoned to make another appearance, this time to be sat upon by an actor in the costume of Mickey Mouse, at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, on the occasion of the characters 60th birthday. Currently the chair sits inside a special Plexiglas case at the entrance of Noritage Furniture, the furniture manufacturing business now owned by John Krubsack descendants, Steve and Dennis Krubsack.Contents1 See also 2 References 2.1 Notes 2.2 Bibliography 3 External links // See alsoTree Shaping Topiary Espalier Pleaching Axel Erlandson Fab Tree Hab: Living Home of Shaped Trees Gilroy Gardens: Home of the Circus Trees References...(and so on) To get More information , you can visit some products about House Hold Furniture, Dolls House Furniture, . The Backgammon Table products should be show more here!