Томас Чиппендейл, 300-летие со дня рождения и махагон.
Вот так бывает, когда совпадают несколько эпизодов в жизни, и уже начинает казаться, что в этом есть какой-то знак. В Инстаграм я подписана на несколько аукционных домов плюс несколько дилеров антикварной мебели из Англии, Швеции и так далее. Ну и еще есть аккаунты известных исторических поместий в Англии, где можно иногда и на детали интерьеров посмотреть да про выставки узнать. В этом году отмечается 300 лет со дня рождения Томаса Чиппендейла, который по праву считается Шекспиром среди краснодеревщиков. Человек удивительного таланта, сумевший задать моду на десятилетия вперед, спроектировавший множество предметов для самых известных домов Англии, ушел из жизни, оставив лишь небольшую мастерскую и кучу долгов своей семье. В 18 веке лорды, заказывавшие целые интерьеры мастерам, редко вовремя оплачивали работы. Так, за один из самых масштабных проектов, первый чек Томасу Чиппендейлу пришлось ждать около десяти лет.
После себя Чиппендейл оставил книгу-каталог мебели, где можно было увидеть предметы в стиле рококо и готики. Томас мог сделать буквально все -от небольших столиков до массивных зеркал и шкафов. Первый раз я просмотрела этот каталог лет восемь назад, сразу как увлеклась мебелью, и поняла, что смотреть на все это бесполезно, ну никак я не смогу ничего сделать оттуда.
Сейчас многое поменялось и я уже могу выбирать, как бы нагло это ни звучало 🙂 Уже что-то могу. И вот в свете того, что в этом году везде в Англии будут проходить специальные мероприятия и выставки, а дом Christie’s устроил грандиозную продажу мебели Чиппендейла, я решила устроить и себе год в его честь. Сделать хотя бы один предмет из его книги. В прошлом я уже делала lowboy в стиле Чиппендейла, это такая простая американская версия, но все же. В этот раз я решила сделать стол. Можно сказать, пальцем в книгу ткнула и стала делать чертежи (привлекли тут необычные ножки стола и очень тонкая резьба).
Пока сделала ну очень-очень обобщенный чертеж, лишь бы разобраться с пропорциями и прочим.
Кстати, да, в заголовке было упоминание махагона.
Art Nouveau Tables
Very quick project, it took me just two days to make them. Pearwood, stained.
A little sketch while planning the pieces.
Louis XV small commode – WIP
Recently I started working on a commode I wanted to make for quite some time. I’m getting to the phase of my dream projects! First, Studley workbench, then Galle vitrine, and now this commode. I’m happy to be able to make things I wanted to make eight years ago when I started building miniature furniture. It’s a huge step for me, so I’m very excited.
I’ll be making two commodes. The first one is partially ready for assembling and making drawers.
Morris Chairs Upholstery
I made these chairs quite some time ago, but I managed to make upholstery only now. I was searching for the right piece of fabric at the local stores, but found what I needed in this wonderful UK based store – https://www.mariasfabrics.com/ I was blown away by the amount of gorgeous fabrics, so I bought a lot!
Art Nouveau Vitrine. Part two.
I’m almost done with the vitrine. All I need now is install hinges. I tried to make them yesterday, but failed. Besides, I really needed to assemble the whole thing first. It was quite difficult, but I made it.So tomorrow I’ll start with hinges again, maybe I’ll be lucky!
By the way, the top and the bottom of the vitrine are all dry fit, I made it just for installing the hinges and after that I’ll glue everything in place.
More photos below.
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Art Nouveau Vitrine
I think this is one og the most challenging projects for me:
On the pic above the original item is on the right, on the left is a marquetry panel I was making (I had to change the layout and design of it later). The vitrine itself is pretty small (the width of the back panel is just 40mm, the thickness of the shelves is 1mm). I really like carved decoration and marquetry, of course. While I was modeling the vitrine I started reading quite an interesting article about Emile Galle, who was one of the most influlential artists in art nouveau movement. He was the one who invited Louis Majorelle to work for him (Majorelle was making brass and bronze furniture decorations, later he started making marquetry and furniture too).
I was disappointed and inspired at the same time while reading about Galle’s company. First of all, he was really good at organizing furniture and ceramics/glass manufacture process, his father was actually running pottery making business. Later Emile started producing furniture, he commissioned marquetry design and carving to the other artists, as well as metalwork. Only later he started making marquetry himself. Anyway, that was my disappointment, somehow I thought that he was producing it all by himself, but it turned out to be a dream team of artists. It’s pretty amazing, of course, but it was a surprise for me:)
Almost everything is ready for assembling the vitrine, I only need to make knife hinges for a door. For now, several photos of the process.
Henry O. Studley Workbench
I haven’t posted anything here for a while, and there were some good reasons to it. Somewhere in my previous posts I wrote that I got an invitation to Miniature Masterworks Show in KC. There were also a competition announced, Barbara Marshall award. It wasn’t allowed to show the piece you were making for the award, so my silence can be easily explained now, lol. There was a lot of work, especially two last months were terrible.
So here is the piece I was making, a workbench.
Why Workbench? It was my second one, the first was Roubo workbench that I showed about a year ago, maybe more. I showed it on IGMA forum, and many people liked it, Bill Robertson suggested I should try making Henry O. Studley workbench. For those who haven’t seen his work, he was famous for his toolchest.
Bill wants to make it in miniature, but a bit bigger than 1/12. When I heard his suggestion I thought that it was a bit too much, there weren’t many photos on Google search but it was enough to see:)
But it got into my head, so when I heard about the competition I immediately thought of it. I knew that a lot of artisans would choose something French, Rococo etc (and I was right, hehe). I wanted something different and couldn’t think of anything, but this workbench somehow stuck in my head, so I decided to make it.
From one hand, it wasn’t a good choice, not many people would appreciate it, only those, I think, who work with wood or metal. On the other hand, it was very honest project, something where every artisan’s work begins. So the decision was made.
I bought a book about Studley’s bench to decide on proportions and dimensions.
The process was not comfortable for me, I don’t like metalwork, to be honest, so the whole thing was a challenge and such an out of comfort zone project, that I think there’s no piece I can’t make, lol.
I didn’t take any prize, but heard a lot of nice words about the workbench, and it has found its place in a museum.
I really enjoyed the show, all the staff and visitors were so friendly, I didn’t see such a vibe in Kensington, to be honest.
I’ll be attending Guild School in June,2018. So there’s something to look forward to.
