- Client:
- Wallpaper* Handmade
- Services:
- Product design
- Sector:
- Furniture
- Year of completion:
- 2019
- Photography by
- Nicolaj Didriksen
The Cabinet of Love was created for the tenth edition of the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition and was presented during Milan Design Week 2019.
Created in a close collaboration between OEO Studio and Danish cabinetmaker Garde Hvalsøe, the cabinet is a tribute to premium cabinetmaking and to music, celebrating the ritual of playing music the old-school way.
The result is a pared-back marriage of materials. A perfect plank of silky raw oak was cut using a combination of CNC machinery and good old handicraft. Each piece was polished and smoked for a rich lustre and, once assembled, polished again and oiled by hand. The body of the cabinet sits on a burnished brass plinth topped with a speckled slab of Pietra di Fossena stone and with a number of intricate details in between: anodised hinges, artfully hidden wires and strips of brass to separate each of the cabinet’s three modules. Completing the cabinet is a custom-finish Bergmann turntable, a Gato amplifier, and Dahlman1807’s vinyl bag and vinyl brush.
