This month has turned out to be full on. I met a great interior design by the name of Christopher Patrick- together we’ve come up with a console table and a round side table project for a client of his. I am so excited to be building these two piece for multiple reasons. One is having the chance to do work and establish a relationship with a talented interior designer, but also because these projects are allowing to do things that I have either done yet or for a while. The console sole table is going to have a dovetail carcass- I have cut any dovetails since my second to last project at school. The round side table is just that- ROUND, I haven’t done a round table at all yet. Maybe those aren’t the most challenging things to be excited about, but they are things new and exciting to me.
With all these exciting thing happening- I decided to finish off a small project that I have been thinking about for a while now. Last year I made a floor lamp out of walnut log base and gas pipes- since that lamp, I’ve wanted to do a desk lamp version.
I’ve done a lot of thinking about the desk lamp version and didn’t want it to be just a small version of the floor lamp. So I decided to use metal bar instead of gas pipe. This meant that I would have to do something I’ve never done- work with metal. Now I am no blacksmith- but heating up the bar and bending it the way I wanted was so much fun. After the reclaimed wood base and the awesome red cloth covered cord and a high gloss paint job on the metal bar and this is what you have:
So what are your thoughts?
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