The FRENCH UPHOLSTERY Expertease

Three chairs for upholstery! Share the thrill when expert Danno Sullivan mistakes a tack hammer for an attack hammer, while Clare Sera interrogates from a silk brocade chaise longue.Much love and many thanks to announcer Moira Quirk.Love the show so much that you'd like to leave a review? We'd appreciate nothing more. Click here, and let your expert review-leaving begin!Got a request for a special expertise? Leave us voicemail with your questions or comments. Over at the website, you'll see the little microphone floating in the bottom-right corner. That's where your expert voicemail leaving happens.THIS EPISODE:In just one 10-minute podcast on FRENCH UPHOLSTERY, here are just a few of the tidbits you'll learn, so you can be an expert, too! --- Expert Danno focuses on the upholstery of Louis XIV- Louis XIV is son of Louis XV, because that's how math works- Upholsterer was called Monsieur Woodsuffice- Much upholstery was done with the hair of aristrocrats- Vintage upholster is valuable because of the smell- Queen Victoria's sweat-stained carpets are collectible- An "olfactory" pun- In addition to furniture Louis XIV and Louis XV, collectors covet the cornet-based décor of Louis Armstrong- Expert Danno started at University of Wisconsin, with just a stick of wood and a pocket knife- Earliest project was self-pasteurizing cheese chair- "Captain and Tenille" reference- phrase "enfolded flaps of flesh"- left over muskrat materials donated to hand pie manufactory and voodoo necklace maker

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