Getabako - Shoe Cabinet

Lawson cypress, English yew, Sitka spruce & wormwood
Value: NFS

The Getabako (shoe cabinet) was built using timber from first growth forests. Some of these trees date to the Heian Period (794 -1184 A.D.); about the same time the Vikings established early settlements on Canada's East Coast.

The furniture is almost entirely constructed of solid wood, using mortise and tenon joinery. However, modern materials and construction techniques are used where there is a distinct advantage. Fore example, the Getabako, medium density strawboard (MDFB) and a temosetting epoxy adhesive are used as a core for the copper top. Because of the proven properties of dimension stability, the shelves, likewise, use the same core. Oiled Yew wood boarders the core before plastic laminate is applied under high pressure using a cross-linking thermo-setting poly vinyl acetate adhesive. We believe that sentimentality must not overshadow the fact that many years of wet shoes place a very high demand upon the surface on which they rest. Furniture should serve us, (not master the servant).