CHAIRish The Children Chair is Finished

For the past 10 years, the Louisiana Children's Museum has done an event called "CHAIRish The Children". Artists from New Orleans take an old chair and redo it. Then, all the chairs are sold at their gala to raise money for the Museum.

This year the gala is on August 29th from 7-11PM and the theme is "CHAIRish The Earth".

This past Saturday, I spent the day redoing a chair for this event. Who knew it would take 9 hours to create such an over the top chair.




Here is the finished chair. Look at all those pink dots. I redid the chair at the home of my friends Martin Welch and Tim Buckless in Uptown New Orleans.

If you look closely you can see some of Martin's artwork in the background. We had so much fun redoing this chair we could hardly stand ourselves. We painted and laughed the entire day away.

This chair started out to be a Lowly Chewing Cud COW chair, but with each passing hour, it kept changing...it took on a life of it's own. It kept saying "I MUST BE A GLAMOROUS CHAIR.." That is exactly what happened.

It went from a COW Chair to a Sultry Marilyn Monroe, Come Up and See Me Some Time, PINK LEOPARD... I AM Dangerous, But Fabulous Chair....



This is Tim Buckless working on the PINK LEOPARD. Tim is an artist himself. He added about 12,000 pink dots to that chair. Just when I thought the chair was finished Tim and Martin would look at me and say "Wellllllll....it might need a little something more."

This is code for.... it's not ready yet and don't even think about taking this chair out of here until it is finished.

Tim burnt all of his fingers gluing the cording on the chair. You can't see the cording very well in the picture, but it's there, in all it's pink, green, gold, and purple glory.

Paulette Lizano, another New Orleans artist came by to review our work. I should have recorded some of the commentary on the chair. It would make for some fun and interesting reality TV.
Paulette is designing a chair too. Hers will be made out of art glass from her store Lizano's Glass Haus.

This is the virgin chair, void of all decoration and waiting to become a HOT MOMMA.


The first step varnishing the chair. See some of Martin's work in the background.