Butch Anthony is an inspiration: he’s a cook, he’s a folk artist (with a festival, the Doo Nanny, where they burn giant vagina effigies in honor of the Burning Woman, as opposed to the Burning Man), he builds log cabins, he wears only overalls and straw hats…the list goes on. Also, can we talk about his log cabins, because they are blowing my mind: I want to go to there! The old fixtures, the rust, the beaver sticks as window treatments (sticks beavers chewed up!), the simple white interiors: it’s all so enticing.
Read more about Butch Anthony in this piece in the Times. Watch the slideshow here. So good!
I can’t believe that fireplace photo. I want to be Butch!
Wow. His cabins are amazing! Several of these rooms are going in my permanent inspiration folder (the one I keep just in case I have to opportunity to build or renovate a cabin one day). Love this post. Off to read more about him…
I just figured out that Butch is the same artist I saw on an episode of American Pickers. And his partner is the brilliant Natalie Chanin! Too bad I missed this year’s Doo Nanny festival. I simply must see Butch’s compound. I think perhaps an overnight trip to Alabama is in order. I need to eat at the Possum Trot, buy at the junk auction, and see the Museum of Wonder.
[...] Anthony first charmed me with his incredible log cabin in the woods of Alabama. Now he’s listed his repurposed found object artwork in an Etsy shop, Museum of Wonder. Butch [...]