While everyone loves the idea of bespoke furniture — of pieces that are unique and customized specifically to meet their own particular desires — once in a while, a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture comes along that makes nearly everyone stop and stare.
New Hampshire-based furniture designer Brian Reid, one of the 25 esteemed members of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters, is the man responsible for the “Hourglass” bed, which features no fewer than 9,440 parquetry veneers and is covered in a Depression-era quilt with plenty of triangles of its own — 6,500, to be exact.
The piece was crafted at the beginning of a patterning phase Reid got into around the same time a friend gave him a book on quilting, at which point he began realizing how similar the two crafts were.
The Hourglass bed, priced at $16,000, was commissioned for the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s “Finding Balance” exhibition, curated by artist James Surls.
Photo credits: Brian Reid and The University of Texas (Finding Balance)
