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Lot 385 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
"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
Closed22 May 2012
Price Realised
GBP 21,250
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Specialist note
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.