a serious blast from the past

crazy one here!  we made this cabinet in 1989 and i personally delivered it to a building
called 'the studios', in new york, just off central park west.  a beautiful prewar building with
apartments designed, so i was told, as live in artist studios
they must have all been very successful artists as the whole building was beautiful!

click this one to see two pages from one of my pre digital portfolios
om that top center photo on the left, i am standing in front of a 7 foot high
carved marble fireplace ...

so, last friday, i received this photo in an email ... in the late 90's the original owner
moved to florida and took the cabinet with him ... in 2003, he sold the house with the cabinet included.  the new owners have lived happily with it since but have now recently
moved to VERMONT!  you can't make this up .. they have invited me to visit and i
certainly plan to do so soon ..can't wait to see it actually.

the new owner says that all the original correspondence came with the cabinet, and

surprisingly, i too found the original file and that is where the photos here came from ...

bill for the custom forged hardware

one of my very early employees, jeff

and another, who was still in high school, frank .. jeff was around i

think for about 7 years and frank for 12 years, starting when he was 17.

and here's will (seedersinstruments) standing in front of the unfinished cabinet .
he was 5 then, and i definitely remember the hat!

i've got a few other photos around somewhere ...

the other bamboo cabinet

 another part of the bamboo cabinet project.  this cabinet is an angled 

parallelogram shape to fit the angled wall .. there are more pictures of the process for this one in the previous blog post.

 we started with a rough scale model whose design was revised 

as we translated it to full size

we eliminated one set of doors

we did a test fir up once we had the cabinet roughed out

had the electricians move the three switches

and installed it thursday, just ahead of the holidays and a
substantial snowstorm on friday ..

 looking toward the house from the office porch

up the driveway past the metal shop and finishing building

party time friday morning with our new slab and new sweatshirts from
goodhope hardwoods ... thanks skip!

tyler, chris, will, dan, sam .. missing from the photo trevor ..
too much snow for him!