New Yankee Workshop

Painted Cupboard

Little is known about the handsome painted cupboard that resides in one of the period rooms in the elegant country estate at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. On a guided tour with Director of Conservation Gregory Landrey, Norm discovers the cupboard and is drawn to its scale, the unusual arched top door and the "pinched" cornice that towers above the case. Norm builds his own version to the same dimensions back at the workshop and even matches the green-blue paint on the exterior and the wine-red color used for the interior.