Vintage Handmade Mid-Century Modern Padauk, Imbuya and Shedua Small Drawer Wood Box

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Beautiful Handmade Mid-Century Modern Small Drawer Box With 3 Exotic Woods vintage

An exquisitely made Mid-Century Modern period small wood … Read more Beautiful Handmade Mid-Century Modern Small Drawer Box With 3 Exotic Woods vintage

An exquisitely made Mid-Century Modern period small wood box, circa mid-20th century.
Box can hold small items on a desk, vanity, nightstand area, etc.; such as cufflinks or earrings

Midcentury Modern Wood Box

The box measures 4"L x 3.5"W x 2.5" H and when drawer is pulled out it measures approx. 8" in length. See photos.
The inside bottom is lined to protect your valuables.

This handsome box was made with exotic woods' Padauk, Imbuya and Shedua

All lumber was hand-selected for the highest quality grain sourced who carry these exotic wood species

Wood Box with Inlaid Sliding drawer

About Padauk: There are basically seven species of padauk belonging to the genus Pterocarpus. African padauk (P. soyauxi), sometimes referred to as vermillion, is the only padauk species readily available today. Others occasionally sold include Andaman padauk (P. dalbergioides), Angola padauk or muniga, kiaat (P. angolensis), Burmese padauk (P. macrocarpus), narra (P. indicus), and sandalwood padauk (P. santalinus).
Padauk grows in tropical climates, although the geography changes from rain forest to dry, nearly treeless plains with each species. You'll find padauk in India, Indochina, the South Pacific, West Africa, and even southern Florida.
Except for squatty African muninga, most padauk trees look like elms, with large, spreading crowns reaching to a height of 120'. Averaging 7' in girth, their slightly irregular, fluted trunks have smooth, yellow-tinted bark. Trunks often have no branches for the first 65'.
The leaves of some padauk species provide protein in human diets as a substitute for green vegetables. All padauks bear distinctive, round, inedible fruit banded by a flat wing that gives them a flying saucer-like appearance. In fact, pterocarpus means "winged fruit."
Depending on the species, padauk's coarse-grained heartwood varies in color from a lustrous purple-red to orange-red. With age and exposure to sunlight, it turns deep maroon. Quartersawn wood features a pronounced ribbon stripe.
King Solomon, proverbial for his wisdom in governing the Israelites during the 10th century B.C., must have really known his wood, too. He chose stalwart padauk for the pillars of his temple.
French Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI were separated from Solomon by thousands of years. Yet, these 17th-century rulers also favored a red-orange padauk they called narra. With it, royal woodworkers crafted kingly cups and chalices. Because water placed in these vessels turned yellow, royalty believed the "potion" had medicinal properties.
A century later, the colorful wood of Solomon and the Louis attracted even wider acclaim. As a veneer named amboyna, padauk was featured in Empire-style furniture.
Far removed from European pomp and furniture fashion of the 1800's, convicts sent to British penal colonies in the Andaman islands off Burma labored to supply the padauk sought by world craftsmen. In fact, Chicago's Pullman Company imported much of this exotically beautiful and durable "Andaman" padauk to panel railroad passenger cars.

About Shedua: Shedua (Guibourtia ehie), also known as ovengkol and amazakoue, is an African wood that is used for furniture, cabinetmaking, flooring, marquetry, guitars, jewelry boxes, decorative objects and veneer.
It is in the same family as Bubinga (Guibourtia tessmanii), but the tree is much smaller. Tree heights reach nearly 100', but have a small trunk diameter - a maximum of 3 feet. It grows primarily in Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast.


About Imbuya:
Imbuia's color ranges from a yellowish tone or olive all the way to chocolate brown. The sapwood is in contrast to the heartwood because it tends be be grayish in color. This is a lustrous wood that features a fine texture. The grain ranges between straight and curly or wavy. This lumber is quite hard and dense. Imbuia is commonly noted for its resistance to marring, denting, and wear. Its also known for its resistance to decay. It is commonly called imbuia or Brazilian walnut because its wood resembles that of some walnuts (to which it is not related). The tree is a major commercial timber species in Brazil, used for high-end furniture, mostly as decorative veneers, and as flooring. The wood is very hard, measuring 3,684 lbf (16,390 N) on the Janka scale. The wood is also fragrant with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon (also a member of the Lauraceae). The tree is also a popular horticultural tree in subtropical regions of the world. In its native habitat it is a threatened species.

Purchased over 45 years ago from high end arts and gallery shop.

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