Below: Out of a french mag I picked up back in the late 80's.  Masterpiece.



Below: Probably the most elegant piece of furniture ever designed and executed by the hand of man.



Circa 1994. Ebony veneer; cut on a 14" craftsman bandsaw and applied assiduously (over 1,000 pieces) and tight as a nat drawn over a drum. It was very easy to apply the pieces.  Lots of pony clamps, and they stuck tight and hard.  I recall laughing at the tightness.  I used a beautiful 6 inch english stanley plane to prepare the edges of the veneers, which were cut out of of 2" by 2" by 12" blocks of african ebony that I bought at Ashby lumber for 20 bucks a pop. When I set up a make-shift fence on the table of the band-saw, the veneers came out flawlessly, 1/16" all the way, and needed just a little sanding to make smooth.  Inspired by the designs of a beaux-art circa German artist and designer, who lifted it from Roman designs.  I can't remember his name.  Von somebody.  Can't find it. Saw pictures of his beautiful home in a magazine around 1986; the walls he covered with  murals in  Pre-Raphaelite style classical scenes.  Like Chavannes or Rossetti.  If only I still had the magazine. In one of the pictures there was a delicate roman inspired bench.  It was that.