Sculptural Media Storage:
The Wave Face Credenza in Heritage Hills
When designing for the historic estates of Oklahoma City’s Heritage Hills district, the challenge is always balance. The homes feature incredible early 1900s craftsmanship, original crown moldings, plaster walls, and quartersawn floors. Our clients wanted a statement media console that honored that historic, substantial architectural weight without looking like a dated antique.
They fell in love with the fluid lines of our Wave Face Console, but needed it adapted into a fully functioning, high capacity media credenza to hide modern home theater components, gaming consoles, and wiring.
Technical Specifications
The Silhouette: Modified Wave Face Media Credenza
Wood Species: Premium Genuine Mahogany (selected to complement the deep, rich tones found in historic OKC interior trim).
Dimensions: 76" W x 20" D x 32" H
Interior Engineering: Soft close hidden hinges, adjustable component shelving, and ventilation cutouts for electronic cooling.
Wire Management: Integrated rear facing wire routing channels to keep cables completely invisible.
Achieving the seamless, undulating rhythm of the Wave Face requires a master’s level of material intuition. Because wood is a living material that expands and contracts with Oklahoma City’s brutal humidity shifts, carved panels can easily warp if the grain isn't aligned perfectly.
For this Heritage Hills build, we utilized continuous grain sequencing across all four cabinet faces. The ribbon-stripe figure of the solid mahogany flows completely uninterrupted from left to right across the seams. Each wave was meticulously shaped in our studio, creating a tactile centerpiece where the shifting shadows change throughout the day as natural light moves through the room."
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The original idea for the wave face started back in 2017. I was asked to design the reception desk for a large salon in south Texas. They wanted something unique and the salon had a sort of "Miami sheik" style, so I suggested waves. They loved the idea, and I had an excuse to work out the process for creating my pattern.
I got to spend some time in Hawaii back in 2014, and one of my fondest memories was getting up early to walk the beach. It seemed like everyone there slept in, so I would have the beach all to myself for an hour or two. Just curling my toes in the sand and enjoying the view. I was always struck by the ripple patterns in the sand, left there by the night tides. The pattern of that was stuck in my head, until I let it loose on a wooden canvas. In early 2018 we were commissioned to build a piece that required some very large mahogany boards, and as luck would have it, there were two 6 foot long pieces left over. So I created a plan, and on that Friday I laid out the pieces and glued them up. The next day I went in early and began what you're watching now. I spent most of the day getting the face complete, minus the final sanding.
Unfortunately though, the piece didn't grab people they way I'd hoped it would, and it sat in the shop for almost two years waiting for the right person to come in, see it and fall in love. From there it was set, once people saw the first one complete, the orders for them started coming in.
They now reside from New Mexico and Colorado, over to New York City.
No two are alike. We still make them somewhat freehand, so each has its own unique style. I usually ask the client for pictures of their space and then plan the broadness, roundness and width of the waves to compliment their home. We’ve made them from mahogany, walnut, white oak, red oak and zebrawood, and every time I’m still amazed at how the wave patterns transform the wood grain into something new and wonderful...
