Tambour

Tambour doors now and then
April 10, 2024

Polish furniture maker Tom Bensari takes a look at the evolution of the tambour door, from its roots in 18th century France to contemporary furniture collections.
An Oval Case with Tambour Doors
August 3, 2023

Ben’s piece was inspired in part by televisions from the 1950s that looked like pillowed cubes raised several inches off the ground on tapered, turned legs that splayed out. Rather…
A 1955-Inspired Tambour Wine Cabinet
June 8, 2023

A client of Jack’s, remembering a 1955 tambour wine cabinet from his childhood home, wanted a new piece that retained the original’s characteristics but with an updated design and increased…
A Seymour sideboard
May 30, 2023

Start with a really good photo, and all the details will fall into place.
Demystifying construction details
November 18, 2020

Through the process of building 3D models, very fuzzy, obscure features in a piece of furniture are exposed, worked out, and visually displayed.
Tambours take a turn
September 30, 2019

Watch the slat disappear like magic.
Building a roll-top desk
December 1, 1989

Interlocking slats form an all-wood tambour

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