This document summarizes the history and style of Mission Rocking Chairs and describes one particular chair that was rescued from being thrown away. It provides details on the Mission style, which emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines that accentuate wood grain. This specific chair was seen being dumped and was saved from the garbage by Greg. It sat unused for years until being restored by the Recovery Room in 2015. The summary continues the story of this chair's restoration.

1. Mission Rocking Chair
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE RECOVERY ROOM OF REGINA SASKATCHEWAN
2015 2016 PROJECT FOR MR. GREGORY RIEHL

3. Mission Style
- is a design that emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that
accentuate the grain of the wood (often oak, especially quartersawn oak). People were
looking for relief after the excesses of Victorian times and the influx of mass-produced
furniture from the Industrial Revolution. The furniture maker Gustav Stickley produced Arts
and Crafts furniture often referred to as being in the Mission Style, though Stickley
dismissed the term as misleading. This was plain oak furniture that was upright, solid, and
suggestive of entirely handcrafted work, though in the case of Stickley and his
competitors, was constructed within a factory by both machine and handworking
techniques.

4. This particular Rocking Chair
- was rescued from a local garage sale, where the owner, Greg, was riding by on his
bike, the rocker was being carried to the dumpster as no one had wanted the chair.
Greg saw the bones of the chair, and locked his bike to a post, and carried the chair
six blocks home. There it sat for years, too rickety to sit on, and then it sat in the
basement of the Recovery Room for another couple of years, until the holidays of
2015 where the restoration began. This is where the story picks up, and where these
pictures and the new life start again.

26. Oh, we’re not quite done yet, so stay tuned……