American Walnut · Tapered Legs · Technics 1200

Las Patas

● In Progress

The Commission

A Piece That Travels

This credenza was born as Phase 2 of The Nook — a floating wall-mounted record console designed to live under a staircase in Ali and Eduardo’s Salt Lake City home. The plan: slatted walnut doors, a turntable bay with a flip-top, three sliding record drawers, and invisible hardware. A continuation of the slatted door’s DNA.

Then Ali and Eduardo decided to move.

A floating piece can’t travel. It’s bolted to studs, married to a wall. So they called and said: we need legs. And just like that, the credenza stopped being an installation and became a piece of furniture — something that lives on its own, goes where they go.

It grew legs. Las Patas.

The Design

Mid-Century Soul

The design language carries over from The Nook — slatted door fronts, walnut throughout, minimalist lines. But now the piece stands on its own. Tapered legs give it that mid-century posture. The turntable bay opens upward on gas struts, revealing the Technics 1200. Three sliding record drawers hold the collection. An electronics drawer hides the amp and preamp.

68 ¾ inches of walnut, built to hold a lifetime of vinyl and the memory of the space where it was born.

Fusion 360 render — Las Patas credenza, full 3/4 view showing slatted doors and tapered legs

Fusion 360 render — Las Patas with turntable bay open, Technics 1200 visible

Detail render — tapered walnut legs and open electronics bay

Las Patas — the legs that changed the project.

The Build

Glue, Dowels & a Prayer

118 linear feet of walnut S4S, shared with another project. Every panel is a glue-up of four strips of 1×6, clamped with bar clamps and weighted with kettlebells. The grain was picked with intention — even at the raw stage, you can see the figure coming through.

The carcass is glued and doweled. See-through walnut dowels at every joint. No back panel — the wall was supposed to be the back, but now the piece stands free. The turntable compartment gets a quarter-inch walnut plywood back for cable management.

Lumber & Glue-Ups — Feb 2026