Forma Coffee Table

 

 

PROJECT: Coffee Table with Storage

DATE: winter 2023

MATERIALS: solid cherry, cherry-veneered particle board, Baltic birch plywood

DIMENSIONS: 35 1/8" long, 21 1/16" wide, and 16 1/6" tall

SURFACE TREATMENT: black-pigmented plant-based wax-oil

BRIEF

Design and fabricate a coffee table with a surface no larger than six square feet. It had to contain some type of storage (drawer, shelf, compartment), and had to include at least one veneered element.

 

digital model
technical drawings
scale model

 

This was my first time making drawers - so it was amazing when I put them in for the first time and they fit perfectly. "I love it when a plan comes together".

Even though I made a ton of mistakes, overall, I'm happy with the coffee table.

 

 

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