The completed bar for CUTMR 11

 

 

The bar table for CUTMR 11 is finally complete. She is making a brief appearance at the Mayor's Gala to display 100 bottles of wine to generate monies for The Stratford Perth Community Foundation today. Then she is off to Toronto to The Gladstone Hotel tomorrow.

She will be displayed on the second floor lobby under a canopy of lights designed by Hilary and Tim. It is an ironic pairing of sorts because I began woodworking as a paddle and boatbuilder. I drew heavily on my old boat fairing skills to shape the base. Our pairing was quit accidental.

 

Creating the bar for CUTMR 11 - a photo essay

Here is a photo essay of construction details of the CUTMR 11 bar.

I created a specifically shaped Krenov hand plane to create the inside curve on the base. Check out the process in this video.

I created another Krenov wooden hand plane to do the final surface smoothing on the table top surface. Check out the hand planing techniques in this video.

In this video I am cutting and fitting the dovetail tenon joinery for the base.

Visit the Gladstone Hotel for CUTMR 11.
 

http://gladstonehotel.com/hotel

creating a walnut slab coffee table

 

This is a photo essay of the construction details of the above slab coffee table.

Our January Arctic Vortex

This is the aftemath of the storm that froze the water pipe at the Gladstone Hotel and buried my workshop

Krenov plane for coopering

  This is the hand plane that will be used to shape the convex inside curve of base for CUTMR 11's bar. The video demonstrates the process.

Planing curly maple with a Krenov plane

 

 

 

Part of the process of building the bar for CUTMR 11 involves constructing a set of hand planes to do the smoothing and shaping.

 

 

 

   This video shows the smoothing plane finishing curly hard maple. See if you can see the reflection of my hands in the finished surface.

Creating Come Up To My Room 11's bar: the introduction video

 

I have been entrusted with the task of creating the bar for CUTMR 11. It is my hope that THE BAR will  inspire the atmosphere that will precipitate the unique CUTMR dialogue.

 

In the eleven years that have passed since Christina Zeidler and Pamila Matharu envisioned the first edition of, CUTMR, the Toronto design community has come into its own. CUTMR has been at the forefront of this change, discovering new talent while giving established designers and artists a chance to experiment with fresh ideas and unusual collaborations in a unique heritage landmark. One of CUTMR’s distinguishing features has always been a curatorial process that embodies ideas of trust and risk, encouraging exhibitors to produce work that tests their limitations. These results have always been pleasantly surprising, not only to CUTMR’s many visitors, but to the curators and designers as well.

 

Come Up To My Room 11 (CUTMR 11) runs Thursday, Jan. 23 to Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, concurrent with Toronto, design week and the Gladstone’s annual textile show, Hard Twist curated by Chris Mitchell and Helena Frei, at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, 1214 Queen Street West.

 

 http://www.gladstonehotel.com/blog/

 

Please come up to the bar.

cheers
wayne