Alex Mace JD-MBA Candidate at Northwestern University. Greater Chicago Area. Thompson Street Capital Partners, +6 more. Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, +2 more. Prior Experience Casey Quirk & Associates, New York Deloitte Consulting, New York Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis Education BSBA in Political Science, Economics, and Spanish from Southern Methodist University MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University JD from Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University Outside Activities Eagle Scout.
A rare double chair attributed to Shadrach Mace. Courtesy Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University.
The Mace family of western North Carolina became famous for their comfortable chairs, called “settin’ cheers.” Beginning after the Civil War, several generations of Maces made functional, curved-back chairs. As durable ash and hickory wood became scarcer, they turned increasingly to maple, cherry, oak, and walnut. Open picture english. They never used glue, instead inserting dried slats and posts into holes in uncured wood that, when shrunk, created tight joints. The curved pieces were made by boiling wood in water and then bending it. They rarely applied finishes to their chairs. Initially selling their chairs around Asheville, by the 1920s the Maces were shipping them around the country. Birdie, the last Mace family chairmaker, died in 1973. Mace chairs are highly-prized by collectors.
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