Koa Mountain marquetry - like jewelry box

wood jewelry boxes and wood endgrain cutting boards

Landscape Koa Jewelry Box, 10" x 13" x 4 1/2 -7 7/8"

With Special Necklace and Earring Storage

$600.00-$950.00

Now in stock!

This version of my koa jewelry box uses a marquetry-like technique to create a mountain landscape, with a ziricote sky studded with genuine silver stars, three ridges of figured koa mountains, and a holly moon rising behind them. Unlike marquetry however, this top is constructed from solid wood, sliced at a full 1/16" thickness from a thicker block, and then glued to a birch ply panel backed by koa veneer. This means that it is actually thick enough to have a deep scratch sanded out by some woodworker generations down the road. The resulting top has the full luster of sawn and sanded solid wood, finished with a hand rubbed penetrating tung oil and varnish finish. Innovative necklace storage and earring storage systems make the inside of the box as notable as the outside, a combination of artistry and engineering that only someone who spends far too much time thinking about jewelry boxes could have produced. The versions with drawers feature dovetailed drawers with mitred drawer fronts that close to perfection with a satisfying "click" as they mate with the jewelry boxe's case.

Available without a drawer, 5.2" high, for $600,Buy (out stock)

with one drawer, (6 3/8" high, for $775, (Buy ) in stock

and with two drawers, 7 7/8" high, for $950 (Buy) in stock

All include a half-with sliding tray with earring and ring storage, and necklace storage box in the lid. See here for details on the drawered version

Close up of box top showing the lovely graining in the ziricote sky, and the variegations of the figured koa mountains. What this photo can't capture is the way the silver stars twinkle as they catch the light from different angles. Framed in ebony and curly, spalted mango.

Here's an open shot, (the two drawer version here, same system is used on the no drawer and one drawer versions), showing the innovative necklace storage and earring storage systems. The necklace box has a spring hinged, padded top section that places gentle tension on necklaces, preventing the inevitable entanglement common to inexpensive necklace "pouches" used by many box makers. This may be easily opened and closed with a flick of a finger. The earring tray allows about 20 pairs of earrings to hang, both studded ones in the two rows of slots, and hook style in front through the holes. There is a two slot ring pad on one side , and flat storage on black velveteen in back on the other , with a handle in the middle for lifting the tray. For those of you who don't wear earrings, I can ship this box with a more standard mitred tray with ring storage instead. Italian brass cylinder hinges, and solid brass lid stay by Brusso that I use in many of my boxes. The bottom dividers form nine compartments sized from earring to bracelet, and can be removed.