Tansu

Len Cullum demonstrates how to make tansu hardware, including all the plates and corner braces out of sheets of copper.

Unlike most drawers, Len Cullum's tansu drawers feature pinned joinery at the corners and the bottom is pinned directly to the drawer box.

A box-style tansu, like this chest by Len Cullum, is built using wide, pinned finger joints and shopmade copper hardware.

Influenced by traditional step tansu, Craig built this shelf using the overall form but only doing a single step due to space constraints. The marquetry design on the drawer fronts…

A kitchen tansu seen in Japan inspired Fox to combine sliding doors and drawers in his tall dresser. The design process starts with a sketch, then evolves to a full-scale mockup and eventually the dresser itself.

Tomas Braverman had this special set of hand-forged hardware for decades before he finally built the piece that it was meant to embellish—a Spanish chest, or vargueno, designed to hold…

This rolling tansu chest by Aaron Levine is based on a traditional Japanese furniture form, but when he designed it he was serving an apprenticeship and was at the very…

I worked on a set of four stacking tansu dressers for over a year, and paid about $500 for authentic Japanese hardware, so the last thing I wanted to do…

Commissioned in 2012 by client for private residence in Maryland. Although initial inspiration came from more traditional Tansu cabinets, some would say I have used the term incorrectly, I retained...

Woodworker: Joel ShepardThis tansu entertainment cabinet (26-in. deep by 72-in. wide by 96-in. tall) offered Seattle designer and builder Shepard the perfect way to indulge his “fascination with...