Mirrors for the Tapered Cabinets

Back in December, we finished a pair of tapered cases for a client in Philadelphia. The whole concept has now evolved to include two mirrors and a beautiful handmade quilt ... We finished the mirrors yesterday and they will be delivered next week sometime to complete the picture ... I kind of like fooling with Photoshop and I've got the whole concept mocked up below. This was a great project and I look forward to seeing it in person next time I'm in Pennsylvania, which may be to see the Philadelphia Fine Furniture Show at the end of March ....

The mockup with the mirrors and the quilt added .. Click to enlarge

The Tapered Cabinets

Head on of the finished mirror

We made up the stock, sanded and assembled all the frame parts with the walnut edges tacked on. Next we mitered the molding sections and then disassembled the outside edges so we could glue the corners and reinforce the joints with corner screws. Then we added the precut walnut edges back to the frames with clamps, glue and blocks to wrap them up.

Adding the walnut borders

Tapered Piece Update

Well ... we 'got er done' .... We finished the tapered pieces that we have been working on for the last month or so yesterday .... My shipper will be picking them up Monday morning to deliver them to their new home in downtown Philadelphia. We kind of knew as we were going along that these pieces were going to have a substantial presence when they were finished, but after we got the finish and the hardware on and set them up for the photos even we were a bit like, whoa! serious! .... They've got a really nice sense of balance and timelessness too, could go in a traditional or contemporary environment, and yet they don't seem to have any real historic direct decendants that I can place ... Egyptian? Biedermeier? Roman/Cretian? I don't know ... I can't really figure out why it all works .... I thank my clients for working with me on the designs, for embracing parts of our existing aesthetic and for having the faith that we could pull this project off .... I can't wait to see them in their new home .... Click the photos to enlarge them .... Hardware by Sam ...

Side by each

The doors head on

The drawers

The abalone triangles in the backsplash

All you need to know to build them is right here... The skinny pattern is a side view of the front element, the fat one is the front view of the same element, the solid wood sides are clipped to the ply structure and glued to the front tapered element, and the rest is just boxes, except for the base trim which was angled on a jig and run through the planer and attached to a box ... As they say, " There's nothing we do that can't be done by a 12 year old with ten years of practice ...."

'existing aesthetic'

FYI ... Other tapered pieces we have built

http://www.dorsetcustomfurniture.com/ItemDetails.aspx?iId=223&mId=-7&pcId=

http://www.dorsetcustomfurniture.com/ItemDetails.aspx?iId=221&mId=-7&pcId=&cId=70

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