Etz Modern Vintage | Erin Etzler

A couple of years ago, I showed this client some of my work. She looked at it, then pulled up the work of another furniture artist and showed it to me.

High gloss. Bold. Completely different from what I was doing at the time. I wasn’t offended. I was intrigued.

I remember looking at it and thinking: I need to know how to do THAT.

Not copy or compete with it. I wanted to learn the skill well enough to eventually take it somewhere of my own.

So I did.

Learning high gloss completely changed the trajectory of my work. And somewhere along the way, it gave me the confidence to stop asking whether an idea was too much and start asking whether I could actually pull it off.

This chair is the full-circle version of that story.

It’s not really about the chair.

It’s about what happens when something shows you there’s another level—and you decide to go get it.

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