NineStory Furniture’s Tatum Chair

Posted: February 14th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Blog | Tags: , | Comments Off on NineStory Furniture’s Tatum Chair

Andrew at  Nine Stories Furniture has finished his Piano Key Chair and it looks really nice!

Here is some text from Andrew’s press release:

Nine Stories is pleased to introduce Tatum’s Lounge, a project that explores the structural limits of a found group of parts, all similar but none the same, in the creation of a chair dedicated to the wonderful stride pianist Arthur Tatum.
Deemed “ the greatest pianist in any style” by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Art Tatum was a man of immeasurable talent who created sounds both wonderful and chaotic. Made up of 25 salvaged piano keys (and very little else) Tatum’s Lounge was over the course of 2 years built in an organic manner something like a Tatum piano solo; with both order and abandon.


Happy Saturday

Posted: December 12th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Blog | Tags: | Comments Off on Happy Saturday

Brooklyn Navy Yard at Wilsonbuilt

Even working on the weekends is rewarding with a view like this.


Nine Stories Furniture

Posted: December 5th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Blog | Tags: , | Comments Off on Nine Stories Furniture

elsie low table nine stories
Andrew Rumpler’s studio Nine Stories Furniture is just down the hall from ours here at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Andrew does the coolest things with reclaimed materials – these are pics of a few of his tables made from auto body metal from vintage automobiles. All the other metal parts you see are pieces Andrew custom fabricated – note the bent laser-cut leg braces made from stainless. Rumpler does nifty stuff with wood too – he has some really nice laminated wood bicycle handlebars (i sadly don’t have any pics yet…).  Andrew is also making a gorgeous new chair that is build from reclaimed piano keys. I can’t wait to get a picture of it up here when he is finished!

You can also see a writeup of his work here at Apartment Therapy.