Charlie Ryland is a chair maker, teacher, and researcher working with pre-industrial tools, techniques, and styles to unpack their stories and adapt their forms to the modern context. First introduced to the trade in his father’s cabinet shop in rural Idaho, and later trained in the North Bennet Street School’s Fine Furniture and Cabinet program, his work is motivated by the ways in which the overlap of craft and labor can be used to build and shape community through the generation of history, meaning, and solidarity.