The June Vanity #1 and 2
I’ve been slowly developing a new line of pieces over the last year, when time allows. Like a lot of my furniture, it started as a pile of details, and narrowed from there. Relatedly, I’ve been doing a lot of work since April 2020 on learning Fusion 360—a CAD software that allows you to rapidly iterate ideas and produce high-quality renderings. I’ve been trying to get any ideas that strike into sketches on Fusion. From there I can play around with proportions and see a representation of the idea without having to find time to build a piece from scratch.
Tangent for a minute (this is the texture you really get in blogs—great for me, and total word count—but hear me out): I’m not very good at naming my furniture. I call our popular floating walnut vanity “walnut floating vanity”. But the first cornerstone piece of furniture I started building regularly was a walnut platform bed—the first of which was for my (then) 3 year old son. So I named it after him—The August Platform Bed.
For quite awhile, my wife and I have discussed a dresser for our (now) 3 year old daughter. This being a personal project, it’ll be long-in-planning before hopefully coming to life in the near future. It was the original inspiration, though, to work in Fusion on focusing that pile of details into a cohesive piece. Here is one of the first acceptable drafts:
Sadly, the life of a furniture maker doesn’t often allow for such petty indulgences as producing speculative work. Fortunately I count myself very lucky to have some amazing repeat clients that sometimes go for my sparse sketches and trust it’ll come out in the end.
The request was for two matching, floating vanity cabinets—refreshingly, though, these would not be holding sinks. They were to flank a large free-mounted sink, with soapstone countertop slabs going on top once installed. Early on I floated the idea of an all walnut version of the dresser above, sans base. We exchanged some other ideas and requirements, and landed on a concept incorporating grain-matched fronts and recessed pulls. Here’s the result.
Introducing the June vanities—who’s (middle) namesake will hopefully be getting a dresser in 2021. Thanks to several other returning and new clients, we already have media console, dresser, nightstand, and larger vanity variations on the way in the first half of 2021. Very excited to continue evolving this line.
Customer-provided photo
Sneak peak of the June media console
