Christine Loehrlein, Jupiter (FURNITURE 2025)

Photos:

Todd Sorenson

Country

United States of America

The inspiration for this piece was from the work of the great French Art Deco designer Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann. The case has a cross-sectional shape of a trapezoid, with the two sides and the front being curved. The bullet-shaped legs are seven-sided. The large areas of the exterior are made of a curly bubinga veneer, while the legs and mitered frames of the top and bottom are a straight-grained bubinga. The interior is European steamed pear veneer, providing a contrasting and lighter color for the inside. The interior features a single drawer with hand-cut dovetails, and a single moveable shelf supported by hand-made shelf brackets. The finish is shellac. The piece is called Jupiter because of a circle within the swirling pattern of the curly bubinga that is reminiscent of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a spot that is repeated throughout the exterior of the piece because of the veneer.

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