The design of this massive and impressive looking display cabinet has received the 2008 Design Journals’ ADEX Award’s second place of a Gold Award.

This item was designed in June 2007 and produced by China’s wood factory in July 2007.

Re-designed and altered from a large one-piece antique Bai Wood (Chinese Cypress) clothing cabinet, this cabinet retains the original wood frame constructed with large wood posts in rounded shape. The original red lacquer has been stripped and finished in as light color as possible in thick hand-sanded clear lacquer layers. This now two-sectioned display cabinet is added with glass at the front and on the two sides to allow the light to go through. The bottom circular-shaped brass plates are added.

Bai wood is a dense and silky Chinese soft wood used, among others, for the 17th century Chinese Ming Dynasty furniture pieces. This wood is beautiful when polished as it shows almost no grains and is one of the wood types that retain a lighter color when refinished with a lacquer finish.

Because of the tapered body and the shorter and wider bottom section with its large size circular shaped brass plates, this cabinet is named "Heaven and Earth". This is a one-of-a-kind re-designed piece.

This cabinet is good for displaying glass, porcelain, and tableware in a dining room. It is also excellent for displaying small size personal art collection when placed against a large size wall space. It was designed with an intention to be used in a large public space for displaying special art objects.

This item has an attached plaque bearing the trademarks of Shen’s Gallery and April Shen.

51” W x 23 ½” D x 70 ¼” H

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