Don S. Shoemaker (1919-1990) was a US (NE) born Mexican designer and painter, probably the most representative designer of Mexico Modernist furniture design.In 1960, he established, along with his wife Barbara, the Señal S.A. furniture factory in Mexico, where they had settled in 1947, having fallen in love with the country's nature and its amazing exotic woods.The Sling chair is an archetypal example of the first and most significative side of Don Shoemaker's work : revisiting traditional Mexican furniture shapes through an exploration of a sculptural and organic design in wood and leather, with impressive curves and a precise woodworking, avoiding the use of screws and metal parts, creating an alchemy of appealing rounded shapes that never betrays the accurate and detailed construction. Described as a modernist version of the Mexican Butaque chair, made of Mexican local woods, these chairs are definitely outstanding pieces.