Here's where you come to follow the progress of your piece of furniture in the shop. No, wood doesn't talk--or does it? Sure it does! As we work on your piece we learn things about where it's been, how it's been used, maybe even who (or what) has used it, and often about where it came from originally. It's a lot of fun and typically quite interesting.

This space also gives us a chance to let you know about any special experiences or progress related challenges. We try to chronicle work completed on your furniture whenever anything significant occurs. So there may not be an entry every day, but when we document them, we hope you will find these journal entries are fun, informative, purposeful, and creative.

So, have fun "listening" to our dialogue with your piece, as it is, it's Wood Talkin.
Email: woodtalkin@gmail.com

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Art Deco

This pretty little Art Deco vanity came to us with a matching vanity chair, bed headboard and footboard and a five drawer dresser. It's a really fun set. Our customer acquired these to offer her friends a guest room adventure when they come to her home for an overnight stay.

The set turned out really well. Among some other things it was "heard" to say, "It's so wonderful to look young again." Yes, they are so impressive when one enters that room for the very first time. I'll offer a picture of the entire set in a upcoming post.
That's Wood Talkin for tonight.

Where are the handles? I apologize that we did not get them into this picture. They were later cleaned and re-secured onto the drawer fronts. Manufactured in the 1930-40's, they were thin brass and plastic. Yes, plastic! At that time plastics were relatively fresh on the manufacturing scene; the latest thing. These were a streaming purple-ish color framed in yellow brass frames on each drawer. They really accented this little vanity---they made it POP!
Check out that wonderful, original, decorative tape. It's thematic throughout the set...on each piece!

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