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This was one of my first designs and constructions. I designed it on demand as a CD container, but it grew up by itself so powerfully, that, after his first visit to my workshop, the client insisted in transforming it into a more important piece. So I did. The pictures are quite bad and you can’t see the space under the glass, where a sea mushels collection was to be exposed. I built it in light iroko and palisander. I used nothing but traditional joints, no glue, so you can ensamble/disamble the whole cabinet just with the help of a wood mace and light hits, in aproximately 30 minutes. The heavy job was the building of the front. It is finished in wax.
I would thank you for any help to describe in proper english this or any of my furnitures. What word would be apropiate in english to describe it style?
Este fue uno de mis primeros diseños y encargos. Incialmente se trataba simplemente de un contenedor de CDs, pero se desarrollo con tanta energía desde el principio, que el cliente insistio en convertirlo en una pieza de más importancia. Y eso fue lo que hice. Las fotos no son buenas y no se aprecia el expositor de conchas que hay bajo el cristal. Esta construido en morera y palisandro. Para su montaje solo emplee ensambles tradicionales, nada de cola, de manera que con una maza de madera y unos ligeros toques se puede armar/desarmar en unos 30 minutos. Lo más duro fue construir el frente. Está acabado en cera natural de abeja.
-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS
































32 comments so far
lew
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posted 477 days ago
If this is one of your first projects, I cannot wait to see what you do next!
This is beautiful. Thank you for showing it to us.
Lew
FRITZ
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posted 477 days ago
SUCH BEAUTIFUL WORK ,YOU HAVE TO BE VERY PROUD
THANKS FOR SHARING
RON
CharlieM1958
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posted 477 days ago
This is an incredibly beautiful piece. And no glue? Amazing!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Alejandro Galo Moreno
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posted 477 days ago
Thank you very much to everybody.
-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS
thetimberkid
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posted 477 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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trifern
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posted 476 days ago
Absolutely gorgeous piece with wonderful creativity. Thank you for sharing.
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jockmike2
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posted 476 days ago
I would call this Amazing work and new age. You definitlely have a knack for wood working. Great Stuff.
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Doug S.
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posted 476 days ago
That is truly a work of art. It’s sort of like marquetry on a really big scale. You ought to submit pictures of that to Fine Woodworking magazine.
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woodspar
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I really like this. Natural, organic, representational, whimsical are some of the words I might choose.
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Bigbuck
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Very Nice, that an outstanding work of art.
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Dusty56
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posted 476 days ago
simply gorgeous !!!
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YorkshireStewart
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posted 476 days ago
What an amazing piece of work Alejandro. I’m finding it hard to imagine its means of construction that allows dis-assembly. As for a word to describe its style; I just don’t know. I have never come across anything similar. It does, from the pictures, look as if you’ve use intarsia techniques.
I’d like to see more/better photographs Alejandro.
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TedM
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posted 476 days ago
Very cool!
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Alejandro Galo Moreno
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YorkshireStewart: I would difference two parts in these furniture. I think to call intarsia the front buliding technique is a bit excesive: I assembled it in the way you would joined some timber to get a wider one, although dealing with the curved edges. Not a joke. The rest of the front are carved pieces: the fishes and the seeweed, both decorative and utilitary as handles. When I said “without glue”, I meant the body, the furniture’s structure; the different woodpieces to build the fishes where obviously glued together; also the different timbers in the front. But not the structural elements or the cabinets: nothing but joints. Here on the Canarys the moisture rate and the temperature can vary heavily within 24 hours, so with such an opened finish like wax I prefer unglued joints, so that the wood can work, move, quite freely. I hope my explanations are clear enough, sorry for mistakes. Getting more pictures will be difficult, but I think I kept all my hand drawings for this project.
-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS
suliman
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VERY nice SIR.
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motthunter
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I like the design and character. Great to see a non-traditional approach to what would have been a basic design. I really like it a lot.
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stanley2
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posted 476 days ago
Very well done – best piece of knock-down furniture I’ve ever seen. Connecting visual skills to woodworking skills is a gift and you clearly have it.
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benihun
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posted 476 days ago
Great to see a furniture maker not following any common style. You created an outstanding piece!
By combining design elements with functionality on the handles you made something very catchy!
Looking forward to seeing your next work!
miles125
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posted 476 days ago
Outstanding!
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OutPutter
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posted 475 days ago
Alejandro,
I think intarsia is a general enough term to partially describe the technique used on the front of this piece. As for the style, definitely early Galo Moreno. I may be no expert on furniture but I can tell when I see the work of a unique artist.
After reviewing the other pieces you’ve posted, I see that the names mean something.
TEA you explained as a kind of wood.
FAULT I take to mean as in a geological feature.
SEAVIEW is from the scene you put on the front.
But, I don’t understand the name Complex Volume. Can you perhaps explain?
-- Jim
Alejandro Galo Moreno
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Thank you everybody for your time and attention. JIM I meant COMPLEX in the sense of compound, not simple: there are three simple volumens (a box, a wedge and a portion of a cylinder) set together to a (composed) unit. A SECRET: I try to design almost reducing the question to its simplest elements, than I try to find the essential elements and at last I CONNECT it all together, not just like in a sack, but looking for a result that makes me feel in front of a new “BEEING”. COMPLEX VOLUME is one of those “beeings”.
-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS
Kerry
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posted 474 days ago
Very imaginitive – a real work of art. Glad you posted this.
Kerry
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ND2ELK
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posted 474 days ago
Very nice piece. You did a beautiful job on it. Exquisite detail and design. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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Dominic Vanacora
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This will be one of those pieces that will be around for a 100 years. A hundred years from now someone will be looking for your signature to determine who made such a outstanding piece. I hope you signed it for future admirers.
Great project, outstanding creative, wonderful craftmenship.
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GaryK
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This piece took a lot of imagination, that’s for sure. Great looking job!
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jeanmarc
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muy bonito meuble.com bien tiempo tiene t él sido necesario para construirlo
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mtnwild
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Great, hard to make graceful and you nailed it or rather , you joined it. Beautiful art piece.
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Randolph Torres
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cooool concept
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Alejandro Galo Moreno
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Thank you all of you.
-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS
degoose
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I sea why you find our work so inspiring, David aka Patron and mine Degoose, this is the style that meshes with our ideas wonderfully, I am in love with the designs.
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a1Jim
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posted 126 days ago
Very special piece well done
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ramon
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esta muy bien logrado el mueblecito,me recuerda el “art nouveau” y diseños de Gaudi,gracias por darme la bievenida,es un descaso encontrarme con un “paisano” en este foro y mas con un canario,pase bastanres años entre tenerife y la isla del hierro y mi hija mayor nacio en arona,de hecho le pusimos un nonbre canario NIRA. La major dificultad que tengo para manejarme aqui es el idioma y la informatica pero creo que lumberjocks merece la pena y las cosas que a mi me gustan aparecen aqui.Un saludo