The Aug 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine has an article by Mark Sfirri
on the weirdest, apparently functional, piece of furniture I've ever
seen
-the Wharton Esherick "Corner Desk". Think Cubist painting AND GoBot
/ Transformer. Trapezoids and triangles everywhere - only the back
is square in order to fit in a corner - drawers that are hard to
recognize
as drawers and no apparent way to open them, a series of triangles
enclose the top and fold open like japanese origami. Even has a secret
area that holds a removable box.

With 14 photos in the article there's enough info to get an idea of
what the piece looks like and sort of how some of it works. But
lacking ANY dimensions I've been guessing at them doing 2D drawings
of the piece - top, left side, right side and a parallel to the "front"
views. But now I'm working on doing a SketchUp 3D model - shooting
for a model folks can play with (slide out drawers, fold back the lid,
find the secret compartment . . . And NOW things are getting a
bit messy because of all the compound angles - and intentionally
visually ambiguousness - by intent - of the surfaces that make up
just the outside of the piece.

Does anyone have any info on the Wharton Esherick Corner Desk
they'd care to share? Even the dimensions of the footprint and
the desk top surface would be a big help.

Anyone? PLEASE!

charlie b

ps: I promise to post the results - if I actually can build the
model in SketchUp here - with links to the model even.