Woodworker: Keith Cornell

Cornell built this chest-on-chest based on an image from American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (out of print). The chest took approximately 500 hours to complete and is made of Honduras mahogany with secondary woods of soft maple and tulip poplar. It features crotch mahogany veneer drawer fronts with holly inlay The carved phoenix is taken from a close-up in American Rococo 1750-1775; Elegance in Ornament (out of print). The finish is French-polished shellac.

Photo: Lance Patterson