Last year, I acquired some lovely old furniture
from a lady, after meeting her brother one day on a train to Aberdeen… (You can
read the full story here!) One of the pieces she very kindly gave to me was
this vintage chest of drawers. It was really beautiful piece and had been
extremely well loved, but some panels were missing, others were falling off,
the beading was chipped and broken and the drawers were very stiff and heavy.
I made the decision to use the chest of
drawers in a new way, and create things from its different elements. I had
already made a big ‘Z’ for Ziggy out of three of the drawers for my workshop
wall, but just recently I had the idea to make a piece of furniture out of one
of the remaining drawers.
I love mid-century furniture legs, so I
ordered a reclaimed set, then got to work sanding, drilling, screwing,
cleaning, priming and painting… and in the end, I got this!
I was struggling to think of a name for
this piece, but Fiona helped me when we were installing the Pop-up Shop. A Wham!
record I own (…guilty pleasure!) soon became the soundtrack to all our hard
work, so Fiona wanted to dedicate a piece George Michael. So meet George, the
freestanding display shelf!
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