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Curly Koa Display Cases Executive Boardroom Eagle Distributors, Honolulu, Hawaii

I had built the Balinese Screen Cabinet for a Honolulu decorator, and in the early 1990s she introduced me to another of her clients. I built two reproduction chairs for his home, and he often came to the shop for lessons, as he was carving the figure of Bacchus on the door to his wine cellar.

He then asked me to build the executive boardroom for his company, Eagle Distributors in Honolulu, Hawaii. This company managed the flow of Anheuser-Busch beer into the islands, and as its chairman, he had accumulated a collection of 900 rare beer steins that he wanted to display. Due to the extent and significance of his collection, we were tasked to build over 100 running feet of elegant display cases, all in curly koa, the signature wood of the Hawaiian Islands.