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10th December 2022, 02:16 PM #1Senior Member
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A couple of Greene and Greene inspired pieces
I'm a big fan of the style. I made these a few years ago but they have held up well and I thought I'd show them.
First is a coffee table. Now, the Greene brothers never designed a coffee table so I had to improvise but that is fine with me. I'd rather do that than copy directly. But I did try to use their "design vocabulary" of humpbacked stretchers, proud breadboard ends, ebony pegs and splines, layered joinery, bolection inlay, and sculpted feet. Visitors often comment on the foot treatment.
Here is it when I finished it, with our tired carpet and sofa.
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The inlay is just slightly proud of the surface, which invites running your fingers over it. I love that. Another Greene and Greene feature. But it did make finishing the surface more difficult.
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And here it is today with better matched rug and furniture.
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The other piece is a side table. This was inspired by my wife who said, "I need a place next to this chair where I can put a wine glass."
After completing the coffee table, for my birthday my wife bought me a trip to visit and tour the Gamble House in Pasadena, California. The tour was led by Jim Ipekjian, who reproduced much of the furniture for other Greene and Greene house restorations. We got to go behind the scenes and take pics and measurements of iconic furniture displayed there. One that caught my eye was a small dressing table in the Gamble's bedroom.
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Now, I didn't want to make this piece but I was entranced and pored over the design of the leg and lower shelf. The leg has a wonderful barely noticeable entasis. It is narrower at the drawer and wider at the lower shelf, and then ends in a waterfall sculpted foot.
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I liked that so much I used it in my side table.
I don't have great pics of the side table but here are a few. Since this piece is in the same room as the coffee table I used the same woods and stain and finish and added some abalone inlay to match.
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The drawer has an ebony and brass surprise detail, also from the Greene bros.
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I hope to make a sideboard or console or whatever you call it to complete the room in the next couple of years.
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