Shaker Entertainment Unit

The Shaker style is the one "country style" that cuts right to the pure geometrics and proportions. If you understand its zone, and don't start messing with its purity by adding decorative "details", and concentrate on the lines, space and balance, it'll get you to that Zen place successfully. It can blend with contemporary styles quite well too. This piece was made with air dried cherry that had been stacked in the customer's shed for 7 years or so, waiting for someone like me to come along. Cherry (and walnut too) is one of those woods that is always better air dried, rather than kiln dried,  because the colour doesn't drip out in the drying process and remains rich and true. These pictures were taken on delivery, and soon after, the natural colour of the cherry started to punch out once the natural light came in through the windows.

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