Designed by James Allen Architect and built by Matt Boers Constructions, this bespoke media cabinet is a study in material contrast and compositional mastery. Two of the most characterful timbers in the Briggs collection; Ash Burl and Forest Red Gum, are brought together in a single piece of furniture that reads more like a collected artwork than a functional cabinet.

The Ash Burl swirls with organic complexity, its four-way matched grain radiating outward from a central point in a jewel-like kaleidoscopic pattern: the kind of figure that can only be found in timber, and only in the rarest logs at that. Against it, Forest Red Gum brings a different kind of drama entirely: deep, rich, and intensely Australian in character, its heartwood ranging from warm ochre to a burnished reddish-brown that deepens with age and light exposure. Together, the two species create a visual conversation that is at once ancient and utterly contemporary.

This is what timber does that no other material can replicate, it carries time within it. The grain of these veneers tells the story of decades of growth, of seasons and stress and survival, pressed into a surface that will only continue to tell that story long after the project is complete.