Ian Laval 
furnituremaker

Vancouver Island BC Canada

by hand






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Bureau.

English cherry & sawn veneers of elm burr.
The fall front is veneered with book-matched,
sawn quarters of cherry crotch veneer. The main
drawers are veneered with sawn elm burr.

Cherry bureau. The interior of the fall is counter-veneered
with sawn elm burr.
English oak writing bureau.

The fall-front and drawers are veneered with book-matched sawn English oak burr.

English oak bureau. The fall is counter-veneered
with sawn oak burr veneer.

English oak bureau with sawn oak burr veneers.

The writing surface is laid with cow-hide

Writing bureau in English brown oak with sawn
veneers of brown oak burr.
 

Oak writing bureau with book-matched
veneers of sawn oak crotch.