Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of TX
In one of my past blogs, “A Giant Wood Jig Saw Puzzle”, I posted a picture of wood stacked in a kiln for drying and explained that Landers’ Studio had been contracted by Seton (and their sub-contractor J.E. Dunn) to act as a consultant on drying the wood and advising on the best means to ultimately utilize and showcase this wood in the new hospital. Now Landers’ Studio has been contracted to build liturgical furniture for the chapel using this reclaimed elm and pecan wood.
One of the featured elements in the chapel furnishings will be the crucifix (shown in this sketch). Landers will construct the crucifix itself and artist, David Everett, will carve the corpus. The curved crosspiece of the crucifix will reflect the natural-edged curved stretcher of the altar design (maquette shown in featured image above). Landers will build the base of the altar and Kincannon Studios will create the limestone altar top. Landers will also bring in metal artist, John Christensen, to fabricate the candle stands and the tabernacle lamp. Kathleen Ash, Studio K glass artist, will create the stained glass for the chapel doors, the glass of the tabernacle lamp and the baptismal font. Landers also invited another woodworker, Mark Macek, to create some of the furniture.
Landers is now milling and processing the wood in order to create the components of his designs. For some components, the wood has had to be laminated into thicker stock. Some of the most showy natural pieces of wood have flaws and cracks that need to be epoxied for strength and beauty. I will blog again as the components start coming together into liturgical furniture for the new Chapel.
