Marquetry Sideboard

[scotternst]

I built this sideboard a little while ago, but I had never written about it. This month on my Furniture Blog I finally got around to writing a little article about how I pieced together the marquetry on a 5' bowed panel.

 

[MrGinCT]

GREAT job.  Are you professionally trained or self taught?  Is this scene of a specific place or something from your imagination?  Either way fantastic job.

 

[mike_aa]

Scott,

That is gorgeous!  I haven't been a big fan of this type of pictorial marquetry since most efforts I've seen before have fallen short.  Not so with your sideboard.  You really hit a home run with this one!  I like it very much.  Very well done. 

Thanks for sharing.

Mike A.

 

[bkharman]

Funny.  We were just in Jackson Hole, WY after Christmas for a few weeks and went to a nice dinner party at one of the neighbors.  They had a lot of furniture like that and I am sure paid a pretty penny for it!

Is that in your house, or did you sell it?  Great work!

Cheers.  Bryan.

 

[otis04]

WOW!

 

[scotternst]

Thanks guys. To answer your questions: I'm a self trained, professional furniture maker for the last 22 years. I made this as a spec piece, but so far it's in my house. It's for sale but if it continues to sit in my place I figure I could have worse problems. The mesa is a real place in northern NM. It is near the Chama river north of Espanola (north of Santa Fe) in Georgia O'Keefe country.

 

[Billedis]

Very impressive Scott!