Chest of drawers
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Well, this chest of drawers comes from about (more than) a century ago. Here, in Central-Europe, the style is mostly called "Biedermeier" (a sort of neo-beroque revival mainly based on the taste of the Imperial seat in Vienna).
It is somewhat close to what in England (and most of the English speaking world) is called "Chippendale" (after the furniture maker Thomas Chippendale - not the dancers
).Enjoy...
According to the "upload guidelines" (which, as a moderator here, I shouldn't break), I add a version without any material added but also provide a version to let everyone see how it is "supposed to" be painted (and of course, the lazier can use this as well). In the attached image (that is also supposed to be added according to those guidelines), I gave quite a shiny glow to the wooden materials - for that's how it is supposed to be with the original pieces (and added a quite "neutral", modern surrounding).
Enjoy... (Or have I said that yet? Maybe I was enjoying making it too much.)
ChestOfDrawers_matted.skp
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Very nice Gaieus
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You know, Eric, I've just got up and thought "why not a chest of drawers for today?"
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Gaieus,
Lovely model. I also think the French had a similar style of chest of drawers. Very curvaceous.If you check out my posting of the jewellery box I will be posting the construction of a drawer that will allow this type of shape to be made. Modern designs are made with this type of drawer constuction.
Its called the central drawer runner system, something that has been going for ??? not sure how long. Probably hundreds of years.
Alan
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Thanks Alan, the opinion of a "woodworker" counts at least twice as much as of others!
(Actually, I was going to write "woodworker" as a profession of Chippendale - not just for fun but also as a kind of "respect" if you don't take it for flattering).I was also thinking about to elaborate the inside, too but then I decided not to. Most of the users downloading it will just put it in the corner asit is. Maybe another day I'll do it (but then the extrusion all around the drawers need to be redone for they are a little bit irregular - due to the path the went along being irregular).
Actually I have an even more "curvacious" dining room cabinet from about the 1880s and a much simpler, more "emire" looking chest of drawers from the 1850s (much smaller, much less decorated still worth about double of the dining room cabinet). I might make one of those in the future, too.
This one above is very similar to what my mother has - I just drew it "by heart".
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Hi Gaieus,
Once you start making stuff that is curved it takes a considerable amount of jigs and things and unless you are making quite of few of them would not be worth making if you were doing it for a living.Chippingdale would i believe have have a group of variously skilled craftsmen working on a project like this. The cabinet maker, turner, veneerer, french polisher. And I've probably missed a few!
Alan
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Yes, Alan, I know. I've also learnt a lot from my own laziness and mistakes - but seriously this furniture was just made to be a pice of component for SU users - not a real design for woodworkers...
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