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In these days of stripped back minimalism there’s almost a sense of escapism in talking to someone who wants to make something that’s completely over the top!
Thirty-five years of intermittent but unrelenting effort have seen Michael Gill finally complete his ‘life’s masterpiece’. Over five metres in length, the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cocktail Cabinet is large in a woodworking life. It’s an encyclopedia of traditional and decorative woodworking techniques that takes inspiration from its namesake’s Art Deco era of origin.
Personality-wise, Michael is also larger than life – voluble, effervescent, a (‘dark’) greenie, a volunteer snake ‘rescuer’ and as you might expect, a cocktail connoisseur. He’s shown on the cover with his favourite axe ‘Sylvia’, along with some of the woods he has collected over the past…