Eliphalet Chapin Chair

When I started to research my next furniture project I came across this chair by Eliphalet Chapin.  I fell in love with the lines and the simple elegance,

 This chair is in the Yale University Art Gallery and they were nice enough to allow me to photograph and measure it.
I made full size drawings and decided to make two of them out of walnut.  Mine are not exact reproductions. I have changed the arm supports and the arms are slightly different.  I have a bit more carving on mine and the original was made from cherry. So here are my versions of the chair:

I have about 70 photographs of the making of these chairs. Kind of a step by step process