Jamie Buxton
04-14-2009, 11:46 AM
This is a pair of armoires to flank a bed in a loft-style apartment which has no built-in closet. Each armoire is seven feet tall by 40” wide by 21” deep. They’re made from curly maple veneer, solid maple, bubinga accents, and copper for the pulls.
They are veneered both inside and out. (There are 17 veneered faces in each armoire.) The top is a bent lamination laid up from bending plywood. The doors are torsion boxes, for flatness and stability. The side panels of the upper portion are also torsion boxes, so the armoire doesn’t twist when a door is opened. The rails at the top of the carcass, and the solid-lumber edging at the tops of the doors, are milled with templates and a pattern bit in a router. The pulls are hand-forged copper, patina’d with Liver of Sulphur. For transport, the armoires break into two pieces; there is a horizontal parting plane just above the drawers. The pieces fasten together with locating pins and trunk latches. The drawer boxes are solid lumber with machine-cut dovetails at the corners. The slides are undermounts. The finish is wiped-on varnish. They took about 3 ½ weeks to build.
They are veneered both inside and out. (There are 17 veneered faces in each armoire.) The top is a bent lamination laid up from bending plywood. The doors are torsion boxes, for flatness and stability. The side panels of the upper portion are also torsion boxes, so the armoire doesn’t twist when a door is opened. The rails at the top of the carcass, and the solid-lumber edging at the tops of the doors, are milled with templates and a pattern bit in a router. The pulls are hand-forged copper, patina’d with Liver of Sulphur. For transport, the armoires break into two pieces; there is a horizontal parting plane just above the drawers. The pieces fasten together with locating pins and trunk latches. The drawer boxes are solid lumber with machine-cut dovetails at the corners. The slides are undermounts. The finish is wiped-on varnish. They took about 3 ½ weeks to build.