CABINET + HANDRAIL The French Frog

SP2022

Location

Our cabinet is meant to be located in the Maison de Verrre by Pierre Charreau, where the shelves and the handrail are one and only element, situated on the edge of the top floor. We wanted to design a piece that would imply the horizontality and continuity of its location, as if it was one section that was cut off from an initially elongated piece that spans a whole floor edge.

Materiality .

The materials used were 3/4” Cherry wood for the exterior, 1/2” birch wood for the drawers, 3/4” bent steel rods for the handrail and legs, and 0.2” steel rod for the front drawer handle. The furniture piece includes three drawers of different sizes and depths, with a different type of handle to open each.

Process

The design of the drawers’ handle began with the exploration of IKEA pieces, specifi-cally the legs of the KRILLE table. We recreated that same bend, flipped it horizontally, and inserted it into our carved wooden front piece. Our cabinet is an exploration of the different ways steel and wood can complete eachother, finding different techniques to combine those two materials seamlessly.

.04” per forated aluminum guardrail

1” diameter aluminum tubing, typical

.0625 aluminum threshhold existing steel catwalk

125” per forated aluminum landing pain ed 4x4 hardwood to reinforce 3/8” thru-bolt existing dr ywall replaced with 5/8” plywood- attached at stud locations w/wood screws

1” diameter aluminum tube struts existing painted 5/8” gypsum wall board w/3/8” plywood backer existing painted gypsum wall board

4” metal studs

2-1/2” long x 1/4” lag bolt

Section At Landing

Exploded Axonometry

Drawers (D1, D2, D3) and the different steel insersions methods in the wood

The leg is sandwiched in-between two pieces of wood

SECTION THROUGH TREAD

The handrail slides into the holes of the side piece and glues to the top cabinet

.04” per forated aluminum guardrail existing painted 5/8” gypsum wall board w/3/8” plywood backer existing painted gypsum wall board aluminum tubing welded together at 8” on center typical

1” diameter aluminum tubing, typical

.04” per forated aluminum guardrail existing d ywall replaced with 5/8” plywood- attached at stud locations w/wood screws

125 and .04 per forated aluminum bent at joint and bolted together at 4” on center

125” per forated aluminum tread

1/8” x 1/2” aluminum flatbar welded to aluminum tubing - per forated aluminum landing bolted to flatbar

Back Left

4” metal studs

2-1/2” long x 1/4” lag bolt

The handle is glued in a crease inside the wood

Exploded Axonometry

The building process

SECTION

The legs are bolted onto the bottom of the drawer

14 slices of cherry veneer vacuumed press on a foam mold

SECTION THROUGH TREAD