Design Bookends

I described in my last entry how I felt about having completed a journey or goal after I finished my last project. That project happened to be a cabinet built to a client specification. The entry included this photo to the left of a cabinet I built a long time ago when just starting out.

You can look at that cabinet closer and compare it to the cabinet I recently completed shown below sitting on a workbench in my shop. Although the two cabinets are built in different ways, they share obvious design lineage. The two are far apart in both years and skill level required to accomplish each, yet one is just as valid in its design and function as the other.

People are still asking me to put more individuality into my work, and rely less on traditional form. Sounds like another journey ahead.