We built this blanket chest as a wedding gift for our sister Loura and her husband Chuck. The gentle curve of the coopered top softens the form while the tapered base gives it a solid, grounded feeling.
The body of the chest is constructed of Douglas Fir and finished with shellac, the interior bottom is Aromatic Cedar which we milled from a tree in our backyard.
A detail of the front panel, constructed with copper wire and paper which was handmade by our sister Carly. The wire follows a "Golden Spiral" found in nature and often used in classical architecture. It is derived by dividing a "Golden Rectangle" into a square and another golden rectangle and nesting another golden rectangle and square set inside the rectangle formed by the first division, and so on. If you continue nesting rectangle into rectangle into rectangle indefinitely, the result is an infinite spiral. If you are interested in the Golden Mean, Golden Rectangle, and how these proportions relate to nature you can read about it in this wikipedia article.
A detail of a drawer pull from an initial design, later left off the piece.
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