Photograph

Music Cabinet: Photographs

01/01/1981

Furniture Making

Two photographs of the blue painted wooden music cabinet for Pamela Alexander.

Photograph:

2) Music cabinet in use

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Print, Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", 4"x5", Color, B&W

Content of

Work of Art 1 Items

Music Cabinet 1981

Personal Work of Art, Woodworking

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Blue painted wooden cabinet for Pamela Alexander, for her music scores and books.

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Wholeness and Feeling in Structure-Enhancing Transformations

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Feeling as the Core of the Process

Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...

Drawings 1 Items

Music Cabinet: Sketches 01/01/1981

Work of Art, Sketches, Perspective, Section

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper, Original on Tracing Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Digitized

Five pages of early pencil sketches of the music cabinet, including axonometrics, sections and details, with dimensions and notes.

Photographs 1 Items

Music Cabinet: Photographs of sketches 01/01/1981

Work of Art, Furniture Making, Sketches

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Digitized

Five photographs of Christopher Alexander sketches for the music cabinet, with notes on getting dimensions right.