The undressed chest – FineWoodworking

The matrix of drawer runners, guides, and kickers in a standard chest of drawers has all the time delighted Italian woodworker Vasko Sotirov. But he thinks it’s a pity these purposeful elements are all the time in hiding. For this piece, he determined to erase the carcase from the equation so all the interior exercise is revealed. A lover of symmetry, Sotirov made the body of the piece an ideal dice and reduce three means miters (with tiny floating tenons inside) at its corners so they might look the identical from any angle. And when he resawed a bit of white oak for the field sides, he managed to create steady grain round every field, but in addition from field to field round the entire piece. The bins, which pull proper out and have carry-off walnut lids, are trimmed prime and backside with ebony edging, and so they slide on ebony runners. How to maintain their alignment tidy? Magnets embedded within the body and the field bottoms gently register the bins, retaining them centered within the dice.

—Jonathan Binzen

Photos: Vasko Sotirov.

From Fine Woodworking #301

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