We spotted this “spool chair” at Zonal, a San Francisco shop that sells old and new furnishings. The Kentucky folk artist who built the chair in the 1930s fitted spools onto steel rods to assemble the chair’s back, sides and legs and used repurposed wood for the armrests and seat. The spools and other parts of the chair are painted but rubbed or worn so they now look “shabby chic.”

We didn’t sit in the chair, so we can’t tell you how comfortable it is. But it makes a great conversation piece. The owner of the shop, Russell Pritchard, told us he plans to donate the chair to a folk art museum.