Garry McPake candidly admits he had never heard of an Adirondack chair when a client brought several to his furniture workshop for repair. Garry, who had worked as a mechanic and shipwright in his former lives, had moved to the NSW South Coast township of Berry more than 20 years ago. By the time he teamed up with Sandy in 2001, he had established himself as a fine-furniture craftsman. They merged their two families and set up a hand-crafted furniture business on a property just north of
