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Just look at it!
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Kuba Komet 60, 1959
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One of my granddads1) used to make stuff like this as a hobby. Usually on a smaller scale like clocks. I think he even used exactly this as a template for some of the clocks. It’s very much the same design, only small enough to put on a sideboard or mantelpiece. But the shape, asymmetrical top on rectangular base on little legs, and the wood marquetry is virtually identical. He just might have seen a picture in a trade magazine at the time and thought, hey that’s nice. The timeline checks out, anyway.
He also built a wonderful cabinet that held a radio, a 33/45/78 record player with a stack of records, a reel to reel tape machine with a stack of tapes, a b/w TV set and a little bar. Everything hidden in drawers and behind doors with geometric shapes in marquetry, every surface with a flawless, clear, polished piano finish.
Sadly I don’t have any good pictures of it, there’s always just bits of it in the background in the usual family pictures.
1) The piano builder/butcher. Not the bricklayer/small farmer.
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Thanks for finding the reference!
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Why is that furniture winking at me and pouting?
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Be thankful it’s not a couch.
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The zeppelins in the background was an especially nice touch
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That’s some fast acting food poisoning. Don’t eat at Trump properties!
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I thought you were replying to the post right above yours. That works great too! 
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If you have to ask, you’re already under arrest.
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