Sunset On The Beach
The exterior of this fully lockable jewelry chest is solid teak, except for the ebony seagull inlaid into the lazy Susan on top of the chest. When the doors are opened you'll find the last of the red (bloodwood) setting sun and its reflection, casting a golden (yellow heart) glow over the sea, profiling the palm trees (moradillo) and making the sandy beach (koa) sparkle. Pull a pair of palm fronds or parts of the trees' trunks and locate the jewelry to adorn yourself for the evening. Each type of jewelry has a black leather lined drawer designed specifically to hold and display it: mordillo disks, in tiers, to keep bracelets and wrist watches from abrading each other; rows of soft leather covered notches for rings; removable articulated a-frames of mordillo for earrings. Your necklaces are in the 4 vertical drawers, 2 on each side of the sunset scene, hanging on removable, leather-lined a-frames. If, at the end of the evening, you're too tired to put everything where it belongs, just lay everything in the two drawers accessible without unlocking the doors - because the sun also rises.
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From the first time my first pocketknife slid through a piece of pine and I experienced the smooth surface, the pungent scent, and the flow of the grain, wood has been a source of sensual interest and pleasure for me. My interest in working with wood waxed and waned for the next few decades: I never thought of myself as needing or wanting to work wood so I never sought instruction beyond the required semester of wood shop in junior high. Those periods, however, when I found myself whittling, or carving or even just looking at or smelling a piece of wood knowledge seemed to accrue naturally through my senses. The present period began about fifteen years ago when I accepted a friend’s challenge to design for a function but refused to allow the function to dictate a form, process and product without the greatest possible sensual interest. Now, I have clients that say they can’t help but touch the work; and since I make sure that even the obscured lines of the piece are interesting, some even lie on the floor to get every possible angle of view.
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