CASE STUDY / THE JUNGLE ONE
A standalone wardrobe for a toddler. How grown up can we go?
A question we often ask ourselves, when designing our standalone pieces of furniture, is: 'If it was grown up size would it look out of place in a grown up setting?'
Children appreciate a well designed thing - of this we're quite certain. And why should children's furniture be all primary colours and rectangles?
We had been experimenting with carving geometric patterns into doors and drawer fronts with an idea that it would be good to incorporate them into some of our designs. And then a project came along that called for just this sort of thing. Serendipitous!
A standalone wardrobe for a child's bedroom. Less Winne the Pooh, more designer/chic.
A solid oak carcass, held together with dovetail and rabbet joinery forms the structure. CNC cut channels are then cut into an Oak veneered board for the doors and drawer fronts. Black paint to fill the channels and a satin varnish over the whole. Premium, grown-up, ironmongery and soft close hinges completes the look.
We think it turned out pretty well and it gets a lot of approving comments, we are told.
The customer was so delighted that we have gone on to produce a raft of other pieces for them.
We're so pleased with it that we have added a version of it to our shop.
