Poppa's Step Stool

Kenn's maternal grandfather, Alfred Gundersen, came up with the design of this article. An immigrant from Norway in the early 1900's, "poppa" was trained as a cabinet maker but could only find work digging the New York Subways during the Great Depression. He would take scraps of wood and metals that otherwise be junked from the work site, and would make articles such as this one for the home in his spare time. The step stool was made for his diminutive wife to reach cans in the upper kitchen cabinets. His grandchildren used it to get into the high beds when they came to visit overnite.

This item is made of antique, wormy chestnut, cut and planed of beams recovered from an old log cabin near Columbia Furnace, VA. The joints are hand mortised and tenoned, and it is treated with Danish antique oil.
Dimensions of the piece are 17.5 " tall, 14.5" wide, and 14" deep when open.
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