Tambour Bread Box - Coming Soon

Some projects exist to solve a problem. This one exists because the construction intrigued me and I couldn’t leave it alone until I figured it out.

The Ember Ridge Tambour Bread Box is built the way furniture used to be built — with joinery, not shortcuts. The sides meet the back panel with hand cut finger joints. The top and bottom panels are rabbeted into the frame. The tambour door — sixteen individual hardwood slats cut from the same board as the box itself, rounded over by hand on every edge, sliding on router cut tracks — opens and closes with a smoothness that only comes from wood fitted to wood with patience and precision.

No metal fasteners. No shortcuts. Just hardwood, joinery, and time.

The top of the box is a usable shelf. The side carries a magnetic knife holder — built in, not added on — sized for a bread knife that deserves to be displayed rather than buried in a drawer. The whole thing was designed around the sourdough my wife Stacy makes, which means it was designed around real bread in a real kitchen by someone who actually cooks.

Specifications:

•        12”D x 8”H x 16”W

•        Hand cut finger joint construction

•        16 hand cut tambour slats — same species as box

•        Router cut tambour tracks

•        Integrated magnetic bread knife holder

•        Usable top shelf

•        No metal fasteners

•        7 day food safe oil and wax finish

•        Available in any wood species or combination

This piece is currently in prototype development.

— Joel