Woodworker: Mitz Takahashi

When Takahashi was in art school, he fell in love with mid-century Scandinavian design. Later, while in cabinet-making school, he discovered a large box of offcuts and realized he could recycle these offcuts while creating furniture. This cabinet (10 in. deep by 40 in. wide by 46 in. tall) combines the two discoveries. He made the front panel with thin strips of scrap walnut, cherry, mahogany, birch, and maple. He glued the strips together, planed the resulting board to 3⁄16 in., and then laminated it to a piece of MDF. The cabinet is finished with Danish oil and water-based polyurethane.