We’ve made a bit more progress on the wall in the office… still one more row of shelves to do, but it’s entirely functional as a desk arrangement now… Casie’s office was on-the-move and they passed off the old Aeron chairs to the employees… they upgraded to Leap chairs. All shelf hardware from Rakks. Lamp from Ikea. Speakers from AudioEngine via AudioVision in San Francisco (they sound fantastic, but the company just changed to a satin finish which is not as nice as the piano black). Awesome Josef Albers-designed LP from a thrift-store in Florida. All lumber from MacBeath. All work by us — cut and edge-veneered mahogany shelving and paneling — hand finished in Danish Oil, Rub-on poly, and wax. Anyway… images below. The light in the space is much better in the afternoons, but it’s time to go to work…
(edit: someone wrote to ask some specifics about installation… here goes. Also, the desk is 18.5 inches deep with a 1.5in gap in the rear for wiring pass-through. We couldn’t get much deeper because of the adjacent sliding glass door, but so far, it’s been plenty deep.)
this shelf is pure gorgeous, nice solution to the hard to find Eames wall shelves. do they flip up or are they permanently down? what weight can each one hold as a load? Do you edge these yourselves, or farm out to architectural mill works?
thanks. we did everything ourselves. it’s explained in the next post, i think… the shelves are permanently down and the brackets are mounted into the channels. the channels and brackets are alum., not steel, so we’ve not overloaded them… we edged the mahogany ply with hot melt veneer edging.