Thanks, Dave. With a table this big, you might as well park it someplace and build a room around it.

It was way too hot for yard work today, so I stayed indoors to make this model. It's a laboratory table, made in France in about 1900. The original is made of oak, with ceramic tiles on the top and five drawers on each side. It's more than nine feet long. I based the model on images from the 1stdibs.com web site. The model is fully detailed; all the drawers open, and all the joinery is there.
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Thanks, tuna. Yes, very sad.

Thanks, Dave. As for the Mackintosh building, an article in The Guardian today quotes one official as saying that he believes the building can be saved. Let's hope.

Very sad indeed.

Last Friday, a devastating fire--the second in four years--essentially destroyed the Glasgow School of Art building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Sadly, the fire broke out when the building was nearly ready to reopen after extensive restoration.
Arguably Glasgow's best-known architect and designer, Mackintosh's work includes candlesticks, textiles, houses, and distinctive chairs for tea rooms in the city--some that are still in use today. His style is closest to Vienna Secession and art nouveau. The chair shown here is known as the Willow chair, from 1903. The original is made of ebonized ash.

According to the company selling a Wormley desk on 1stdibs.com, the tambours slide down inside the base, behind the drawers. And when fully opened, there's still about 6 inches of tambour showing.

Thank you, Dave. Let me see what I can learn about the tambours.

I wish I could answer your question, tuna, but I haven't a clue about where the tambour goes. For all I know, it just drops behind the drawers. I fudged the model and only showed the visible part of the tambour.
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dh

Thanks, tuna.

Thank you, sir.

Recently found some good images of this rolltop desk, designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar Furniture in the mid-1950s. The original is made of mahogany and rosewood. It's an iconic piece of midcentury modern furniture, with some oddities: Brass L-brackets support the drawers; I can imagine the drawers falling off their tracks. The legs and lower stretchers look too spindly to my eye, and I have a hunch the drawers and writing surface are cantilevered too much, making the desk prone to tipping over. Unless, of course, Wormley hid some ballast under the rolltop tambours.
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dh

There were apparently four tornadoes that hit Connecticut on Tuesday. That's a very rare event, since this state isn't normally in hurricane territory.

And, of course, belated thanks to Dave Richards for his good wishes.

Almost too much information, tuna. But I'm glad you like the models.

A quick model of a pair of Biedermeier side tables. Just the components, no joinery. The originals are made of birch with ebonized accents, and they roll around on small brass casters. Killing some time while sitting at Starbucks, waiting for my laptop to recharge. We had a tornado blow through town the day before yesterday, which toppled untold numbers of large trees and knocked out power all over. We're supposed to have electricity again sometime on Saturday. We're otherwise fine.
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dh

thanks, tuna.

Very nice--the model as well as the real thing.

Thanks. The drawer fronts, like most of the piece, are veneered with tiger maple. The satinwood shows as a brownish band around the edge of the drawer fronts, the side pieces, and the back.
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dh

OK, here's the server with all the inlay and tiger-maple texture. For the medallion on the shelf, I had to skew an image of it in Photoshop to make it round (or nearly so). The rest of the pieces in the shelf inlay are cobbled together from other images. And I'm not entirely happy with the tiger-maple texture, but I haven't been able to find anything better.
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dh