Woodworker: Michael HurwitzHurwitz was commissioned to build a piece of furniture to display a collection of family photographs, he designed this cabinet, made of pau amarillo with kumiko-style grillwork. To make the door, Hurwitz’s assistant, Atsushi Hanano, began by creating long, narrow workpieces shaped like a row of pointed ellipses connected end to end—strings of sausage, Hurwitz calls them. Then he half-lapped these together on the diagonal to form the screen. Designing the grillwork was considerably easier than making it. It took Hanano more than 20 weeks to complete the door. The cabinet sits 80 in. tall by 40 in. wide and 17 in. deep.