Amphora Cabinet

The Amphora cabinet was a private commission for storing a special watch collection. Designed to be completely hidden once closed inside a fully functioning lamp.

The final form is something like an amphora, something like a zoetrope and, something like a poppy seed.

The door/shade is made of 37 individual slats, based on the profile of a Greek amphora vessel. The slats sit on a ring with housing joints located around the circumference to evenly space them. The ring is rebated to sit on top of a large aluminium bearing with a routed groove inside the slats to accept a sheet of frosted acrylic, diffusing the light from inside.

A cabinet sits inside the slats with five piston-fit drawers. Each drawer is made with half-blind dovetails and a traditional solid bottoms on slotted screws. Inside each drawer is a friction-fit divider to allow for 6 watches in each drawer.

Materials: English oak