Luxor Credenza

Live-edge slab supports mounted outside the casing, so the cabinet appears to sit inside the wood rather than on it. Designed by Nersi Nasseri, 2021.

SENTIENT Luxor Credenza

A credenza that uses live edge supports attached onto the outside of casing.

Nearly every credenza on the market hides its structure. The Luxor puts its structure on the outside instead. Two live-edge slabs are mounted to the outer faces of the cabinet and run past it top and bottom. The box then appears to be held between them rather than standing on legs. From the front you read a clean rectangle; from either end you read the full natural edge, floor to top.

Nasseri drew it in 2021 after a night walk through Egyptian ruins. That is where the name comes from, and why the proportions are deliberately architectural. The cabinet is the lintel and the slabs are the piers.

Structure and hardware

Every slab is hand-selected, because it has to be strong enough to act as a support and interesting enough to hold the eye. The body is finished flat and quiet so the wood stays the subject. Doors run on soft-close hardware, and the pulls are leather, chosen so the one part you touch every day is warm rather than cold.