Furniture
Furniture
An architect who has spent a morning deciding where a cornice stops has already done most of the thinking a piece of furniture asks for. These were drawn in the office and built by cabinetmakers to those drawings.
The same vocabulary,
at a smaller scale
A bench built as an entablature on two piers. A console carried on Doric columns, with the order followed properly rather than suggested. A clock case that is largely a study in how two woods meet. The language is the one the houses use, worked at a scale where a sixteenth of an inch is visible from across the room.
Most of these began as a room that wanted something a catalogue could not supply, usually because of a dimension, occasionally because of a wall that was not square. Drawing the piece is the cheap part. Choosing the veneer and deciding which face of the log it comes off is where the time goes.
Furniture is drawn either alongside a house or on its own. If you have a room with an awkward measurement in it, that is the usual reason people ask.
Discuss a piece →Drawn and built
