Mudroom & Entry Storage · Alpine Chalet
Bench with Chip-Carved Back, Lüneburg Heath
A wooden bench near Neuenkirchen on the Lüneburg Heath in Germany, with a chip-carved back showing horses hauling felled timber.
Design characteristics
Chip carving, in which small triangular chips are cut out to make patterns and pictures, is a folk technique shared across German-speaking Europe, including the Alpine regions. This bench back shows a narrative scene of foresters and horses. The same technique works on a mudroom bench back, a cabinet rail or a stair panel, and it is very well suited to V-bit carving on the CNC.
Classification
- Style
- Alpine Chalet
- Category
- Mudroom & Entry Storage
- Material
- Pine
- Motifs
- Chip carving
- Photograph
- 2012
- Photographer
- Oxfordian Kissuth
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Wood-lined Stuben, carved and painted pine, and benches built into the walls. Tyrol, Switzerland and Bavaria · vernacular, 1300s onward.
