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Mezzanine and stairs made out of dismembered pianos

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Back in 2012, Tim Vincent-Smith inherited a pair of unserviceable upright pianos. He took these to bits, and using “nose to tail carpentry,” used their every morsel to build a staircase and mezzanine in box-shaped room. The deconstruction process was an education into the craft, skill, complexity and ingenuity of piano manufacture, and the end result was a gorgeous piece that enriched the life of Vincent-Smith’s client, a cellist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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