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November 21, 2014 ITEM 77 SEA CHUNK
Literally a chunk of timber broken away from a boat or jetty structure or something similar. It was found with some sort of heavy canvas material affixed to its face and painted and nailed on! ‘Heavy duty.’
This found object had lashings of character. I simply sanded and sealed the top surface to bring out the original timber colour. Added an ITEM 77 pressure stamp. Freshened the white face paint and added a dash of safety yellow. Then drilled out the holes for the support dowels and the rear stand dowel (all street finds). And voila a curious oddity is born.
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October 26, 2014 ITEM 89 NEW Blue Groove
Essentially a ‘redo’ of ITEM 57 Blue Groove (look in ITEMs pull down),
“An LP record stand to show off the covers, protect them from the daily hazards and always know where you left it!”
This time a 3 board assembly instead of two as the found plank (at the beach) was thinner. The stand pipes are fatter this time though and filled with timber dowels. All components street or water found! The corners are more rounded and instead of the finger lip on the back to assist lifting this one was bored out and embossed with the ITEM number.
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October 26, 2014 ITEM 75 JEEVES
Not quite Lars and the real girl but this is as close as I have come to building my own help! The Jeeves was inspired by the valet stands of days gone by. A prototype it may be but this has proven stunningly useful and accommodating. I adapted the features to suit my lifestyle and thus did not need to incorporate the traditional suit coat rack or wallet tray as I have built accoutrement cabinets separately! But as a quick stop half way alternative to either leaving clothes willy nilly of having to put them away this is the business.
All the components are found elements:
-restored base drawer
-base deck was flotsam from a boat
-green rope from the beach
-hardwood timber frame from a bed
-the pine top board (that I cut, shaped and painted white)
-the second tier cross pole
There are multiple places to hang clothes on the go or that are getting a second go before the wash and also not having to bend down to access things. The cladding panel on the face of the base drawer is a restored plank of driftwood that has been embossed with the Salt and Wood letters. The base drawer is great for thongs or running socks or other little odds.
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December 22, 2013 ITEM 62: Pagoda
A section of eucalyptus flooring became the mid shelf with various bits of a discarded wardrobe utilized to make a hidden base drawer. And angled legs cut from a little plank recovered at the beach. Probably the most interesting feature is the pattern created by some type of wood worm on the inside face. I spray painted this blue then sanded it back to highlight this alien language. Another original feature was the use of Perspex as a backing panel. Cut from a broken sheet I found on my street it introduces a fantastic light quality to the unit. In addition to this light play is the mid shelf being deliberately off set from the rear of the unit to allow light to be evenly spread over the inner rear face. Note also the integration of the restored old school wooden ruler as the back edge to the mid shelf. And the restored/ reshaped corner of the old drawer face. Some old boy had resin bogged a rough corner on years ago and I was able to sand and polish this resin to reform a perfect little corner with all the detail of the resin and previous paint.
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March 30, 2013 ITEM 33: Newtown Alps
Lengths of street recovered hardwood decking were re purposed into a bathroom window fascia and in the process of mitering the corners I ended up with all the character packed little triangles of various sizes. It was almost impossible not to fiddle with them and keep reconfiguring them into little arrangements and stacks. I shttps://saltandwood.wordpress.com/?p=1230&preview=trueoon realized they were worthy of being there own item. I varnished the face and painted one edge white.
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March 21, 2013 ITEM 27: Salt Shelf
Bower (A donated materials and objects enterprise on Addison Road) recovered timber mantle cut and varnished. Bay found flotsam has been doweled to main shelf to create legs.
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March 21, 2013 ITEM 32: DECO
The Inter War Deco Architectural style is a personal favorite of mine and many of the best examples around Sydney are the beautiful pubs built in that style by the hot young Architects of the day and paid for by the cashed up breweries of that era that still owned most of the pubs. Stepped roofs, patterned facades and horizontal patterning, coloured tiles and geometrically even curves reminiscent of the older P&O Liners are but a tad of the magic. This is a little homage I whipped together from these two drawers and various other bits of street and bay found flotsam. Engineering wise this piece is interesting because the drawers are mounted pointing out to the sides. This created all sorts of shenanigans with regard to imagining a sturdy structural compilation. You can see I pushed the 1970’s handles aside for something more befitting the Inter War Deco design objective. These are the same type of handles I salvaged for the Tiki Lounge Key Cabin (a recent post). The paint colours are also intended to be reminiscent of some c1935 pub tile colours.
Tags: Beach house sculpture, design, flotam, Inter War Deco, key cabine, re purposed timber, recycled sculpture, sculpture, street found timber, style, talking point
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July 26, 2012 Item 25: LD2
Long drawer was the first item posted on this blog. It had a brother piece that was found with it and has now finally been converted into a companion CD shelf. Unlike Long Drawer one that was shelved with sides from other drawers, this one is shelved with restored driftwood boards and has a white painted internal surface rather than the paper lining.
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October 11, 2011 Item 12: Old Box
This was an old hardwood drawer (as you can see in the before picture) found in the street. Circa 1930’s ? There is timber from at least 8 different trees in the restored unit including Eucalyptus and some boating timbers. The removable bottom shelf and the chocks it sits on is restored flotsam off two different boats. The middle shelf is a section of Eucalyptus flooring pulled out of a skip. The bottom shelf comes away to reveal a storage space in the base. The facade was laid out to emphasise the horizontal elements including using the flooring tongue detail. 10 horizontal elements in all if you include the shelf spaces. All the nicks and nail holes are filled with red wax before sealing.
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