Many years ago, sometime in the early 1990's, I got a stool from the shopkeeper Maya Schaper (a woman I ultimately worked for and subsequently wrote an article about her.
The stool held up so well all these years but a few months ago its cracked in half and could not be repaired with wood glue or anything else for that matter.
My the first photo atop this entry shows how the top of the stool had cracked and it was when JuanV unscrewed it from the base, that we discovered writing on the bottom (as seen in the second image) now I'm curious if was once part of a whiskey barrel.
The end result can be seen in the next picture which features my former stool now serving as a stand for my Coral Bells Heuchea plant.
This is not the first time Juan had turned a rundown piece of furniture into a plant stand.
