Credenza/Side Cabinet

“Wild Blue”

Wild Blue was a finalist in the 2020 Pinnacle awards.

We designed this credenza/side cabinet to be a very functional case piece that is an unique one of a kind piece of functional art that employs our distinctive mosaic work utilizing a myriad of woods and metals applied to the case and doors as if it were a single painting. The contrasting blue top, base, and three-dimensional diagonal partitions add to the dynamics of the piece while not overpowering the mosaic panels which are separated by the same color blue that essentially is the Pantone color of the year “Classic Blue” . We wanted the flat surfaces of the sides and the doors  to act as a single canvas on which the over 200 pieces of highly figured and naturally colored wood was applied as if like paint on a canvas using the orientation of the grain as brush strokes and the color of the wood as the paint on the artist’s pallet. The patterns of the applied woods represent the “Abstract Expressionism and Cubism movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries.  The color, grain characteristics, and shapes of the applied mosaic pieces were carefully chosen for their position within the composition to create a sense of tension and dynamics between the various elements in a manner similar to the paintings of Vassily Kandinsky and Fernanad Leger. The wood used in the construction of the piece is all “old stock” which we have saved for over 30 years of collecting or from collections of “old stock” which we have purchased ensuring that we are not promoting the cutting of any LIVE Trees in the production of our work. We also retain small cut-offs to reuse in the mosaic portions of our work. These practices coupled with our use of low and moderately low VOC coating and adhesives, FSC certified substrate materials with no or very low formaldehyde, and our electric is provided by photovoltaic cell panels  are considered to follow Leed Platinum, Gold, and Silver Certification Guidelines as well as Green Practices, and Best Practices.

These are two recent reviews and thoughts on “Wild Blue”from a furniture scholar and author as well as an art collector of two of our pieces.