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This cabinet was designed for the butler’s pantry of a late-Victorian house on the National Register of Historic Places. My clients, Jamee and Scott Wissink, wanted their cabinetry to look like a massive piece of Victorian furniture that had been brought into their house and then built in, to fit its space. |
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| The clients and I designed the piece to harmonize with the rest of the house, which has many decorative elements that feature middle-eastern motifs. We incorporated moorish arches, "pomegranate" finials, chip-carved almonds, sunbursts, and, of course, a peacock. The model for the peacock carving in the cabinet’s frieze was "Bob," the clients’ own stuffed peacock, a magnificent animal they had purchased from an antique store. |
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The interior of the cabinet is designed to serve contemporary storage needs, with adjustable shelves and full-extension drawer slides. |
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| For the frieze, I used a dazzlingly-figured piece of quartersawn white oak sawn from a beam that had been salvaged from a state sanitarium built at the same time as my clients’ house. A few old checks in the board hint at its previous life and give the pantry cabinet an even more authentically Victorian appearance. |
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