Width 70″
Depth: 15″
Height: 30″
Cherry, Plum Pudding Mahogany veneer
I designed this piece for my daughter Julia, and her family. For my other daughter I had made a desk featuring a wave shape passing through the drawers. My intention was to continue exploring the wave idea with this project.
About the this time my granddaughter got a pet snake. I hate snakes and cringe even at photos of them. But I could not get the vision of the snake out of my head. Soon I was envisioning the wavy motion of a snake as it moves – and then applied that shape to the design at hand.
The top view looked great, but when I transferred contours to the base I couldn’t achieve the feel I was after. After numerous revisions it still was not working. I preserved many of the other elements of the design and redrew it as a bow front. That’s when it t started to sing – I liked it!
The wavy shape idea was still bouncing around in my head though. The concept took form as my Tempest Table.
