'OAK IN TIME CABINET' A MARQUETRY DRINKS OR COLLECTORS CABINET DESIGNED AND MADE IN OAK BY MAX COOPER

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ONETREE - MAX COOPER "27 November 1998 a single large oak was felled in the National Trust estate of Tatton Park in Cheshire, England. The onetree project aims to show the unique value of our woodlands by showing the volume and quality of work that can be made from this one tree." Onetree project "Designed and made to celebrate the magnificence of English oak symbolising life, growth and regeneration. It took 2,400 hours to create, the equivalent to one year's work" Max Cooper "This has been the most complex and challenging item I have ever made, stretching my making and design skills and exploiting a very precious material. Over 7,500 individual pieces of hand-cut marquetry make up just part of this design" Max Cooper

'OAK IN TIME CABINET' A MARQUETRY DRINKS OR COLLECTORS CABINET DESIGNED AND MADE IN OAK BY MAX COOPER

2000-2001

Details

'OAK IN TIME CABINET' A MARQUETRY DRINKS OR COLLECTORS CABINET DESIGNED AND MADE IN OAK BY MAX COOPER
2000-2001
Domed top, twin-doors enclosing mirrored interior, inset lights, shaped glass shelves united on slender supports with splayed terminals and with ball finials, decorated with an oak tree in three marquetry and fretwork layers, block floor base with concealed door with button release that folds on a concealed hinge, having a panelled back, the doors, sides and aprons fully covered with marquetry decoration, raised on fileted and splayed supports with adjustable feet, signed with MC monogram; together with a 'wood' display of the various types of oak, veneers used in the making of the cabinet, and copy of the onetree catalogue and supporting information
72 13/16 in. (185 cm.) high; 40 1/8 in. (102 cm.) wide; 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) deep: display panel 31½ in. (80 cm.) high x 24 in. (61 cm.) wide

Literature

Gary Olsen & Peter Toaig, Onetree, Merrell, 2001, pg 56 & 57 (this cabinet illustrated)
Peter Toaig, Max Cooper's Oak In Time The making of a masterpiece, Stowefields, 2002

Exhibited

'onetree'
Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Gardens, August - September 2001
Welbeck, The Harley Gallery, January - March 2002
Tatton Park, Tenants Hall, April - June 2002
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, April 2002 - June 2002
London, The Geffrye Museum, June 2002 - September 2002

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Lot Essay

Body of the cabinet made from birch-wood ply, veneered with gaboon which is then veneered with oak or decorated with marquetry. The marquetry decoration depicts an 'oak tree', interlocking 'opening bud' and 'ribbon' motifs. This work makes full use of the qualities and variations inherent in oak, whether bog or burr, sapwood or sand scorched, to the natural colours within parts and layers of the tree as well as dyed and cuts such as the distinctive 'oyster'.The Oak has been taken from the 'onetree' from tatton Park in Cheshire, 16th century Burr oak, and Bog oak which maybe 2000 to 10,000 years old.

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