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Rocking Chairs and Dining Furniture Designed for Comfort and Built to Last Since 1992.
Gary Weeks & Co. - Furnituremakers

Wood as a Medium

Wood expresses and provides form, surface, color, figure, ...and utility.

Form

We sculpt wood into line and form and contour—animating light and shadow—pleasing the eye with proportion, balance, and harmony. A truly comfortable rocking chair or dining chair expresses a human form in negative. It calls. Invites.

Close up rear view of our rocking chair showing the sculptural form highlighted by light and shadow in black and white.

Surface

Touch is at the root of sensibility. To enliven our furniture, we shape, we sand, we polish. There is a tactile and emotional difference between the feel of a wooden surface, sculpted and polished, and any other material.

closeup of our rocking chair arm with a hand on it, showing scale, fit, and surface quality of that sculpted chair part.

Color

The woods we use are prized for their texture and color. They provide a palette.

a row of wood samples showing color and figure and a palette.

Figure

The growth rings of a tree are displayed on the face of wood as lines and patterns. We select and cut to create a coherent composition of figure within each piece of furniture.

overhead close up of our walnut rocking chair showing the scoop and the figure of the seat.

Utility

The son of a patron chose our rocker for his nap.

a seven year old boy asleep with this head and torso in a Weeks Rocker® seat and his knees on the floor.

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