Chess And Wine
Aargh! The queen is on the wrong color tile in the photo. The client wanted a chess table with drawers similar to another I'd done years ago (One Man's Cave Table), but with storage for 4 or 5 bottles of wine and which would fit in a very specific spot in his home. I created a chess table with plenty of textural interest, employing eye catching and unusual joinery to make the transition from the square of the chessboard to the rectangle of the full tabletop. Up to ten bottles of wine can be stored on each end of the table with their necks resting in sound absorbing leather lined holes in the table legs. Black leather also lines the drawer bottoms; and strips of the same keep the chess pieces from rattling as you lift their racks out of the drawers. All joints are cross-doweled and plugged, as are the tongues of the wine racks.
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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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