Bruce Greentree
Quirindi, NSW

Traditional bookcase
Brazilian mahogany, Aust red cedar, kauri pine, Tas myrtle

‘The bookcase has four arch leadlight glass doors and four drawers. The front of each drawer features a cockbeaded surround made from Australian cedar. The top of the bookcase has a pelmet made of five carvings in kauri pine to the front and two at each end featuring flowers, leaves and buds.

‘The cedar was salvaged from the original Willow Tree Post Office fittings. Willow Tree is a village 17k south of Quirindi on the New England Highway, NSW.

‘The kauri pine was recycled from a meat safe from Gaspard, also in the Quirindi area, dating from the early 1900s. The drawers and carved corbels were made to my own specifications and mostly hand made. The bookcase was French polished.’