I knew right from the start that I wanted to make a cabinet that looked like a table from a distance, but I sure made it hard on myself. Because it's curved, I had to strike a balance on the side shelves. If it was rectangular you could only see them from one direction.
Curved, from two. I made a model to help eyeball it.
The apple just gives it a little perspective.
I was driving west on Jefferson in Playa Vista and saw an odd shaped building. It looked wrong, but right at the same time. And I tried to do that.
Not the same shape or idea, but something a little off, correctly.
You look at this from the side and let me know.
Someone gave me a piece of onyx, and when I held a light behind it, it glowed. So I set out to make a little wood-stove-like cabinet. The combination of the yellow stone with the mahogany gives it a warm feeling.
I'm kinda proud of the drawer pulls.
And now for something completely different.
I had the piece of poplar in my shop for a year or so, and it has these purple/black streaks. I kept looking at it, wondering how to use it. I only had one, which rules out a lot. There had to be one heavy base, the stem and a small top.
The poplar stem was rectangular, so I took a spokeshave and shaved of the parts I didn't like and it felt and looked right.
The bottom is walnut that I shaped by hand rather than turned.