Library/Music Salon Bookcase: St. John’s Seminary

This 25′ cherry bookcase was built as ten individual cases and assembled on-site at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California. The Wallace Neff designed Library was endowed by the Doheny family who stored art treasures on the second floor. By agreement with the Church, the collections would be preserved there until they became property of the Church on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Estelle Doheny’s death. At that time, a Christy’s auction was held to raise money for the buildings’ maintenance and improvement. I was honored to receive the commission for the upstairs Music Salon/Library bookcase. Shortly after this picture was taken, a Steinway grand piano (circa 1929) found it’s home just behind the fore-ground couch