Derek Cohen, Harlequin Table (Furniture)

Side table with drawers. Double curved case with rounded mitred through dovetails. Eight drawers with compound angle dovetails. Case in USA hard maple, with drawer fronts in hard maple, pink jarrah, black walnut, and figured hard maple. The drawers. A harlequin design is often thought of as a diamond pattern, but does also include a rectangular checkerboard. Additional build notes: drawers are traditional half-blind dovetailed fronts with solid (bookmatched) drawer bottoms attached with beaded slips. Drawer blades are stop mortised into the case in dados. All work completed with hand tools.

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