Christophe Claeys, The Black One (WORLD 2021)

Country

France

I made this low media cabinet for close friends, who requested two things in their commission : 1. It had to be black. 2. It had to use some chestnut, roughly jointed and weather beaten, reclaimed from the old family barn. So I designed "The Black One", a long and low and black piece. I resawed the chestnut I could save and used it for the under-carriage and to dress up the front. The sliding doors, shoji style, had to provide good ventilation to the geek stuff inside so I fitted them with "shark gills", made of steam-twisted oak leuvers. I guess that, being a sea-kayaker, I couldn't keep myself from throwing in it some kind of marine inspiration. Inside there are a couple of drawers, sides pinned with wood-nails and then planed to piston fit. I ebonized it and sprayed a water-based varnish. The length of the piece is 1,8 meters, its depth 0.4 m, its height 0.4 m. It lives now happily with its owners in the outskirts of Paris

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