A client contacted me for a built in banquette project, and during our meeting I came up with an idea for a curved seat. The case pictured here is the center unit with the curve for the seatback marked out.

Two additional cases flank the center one, each case with a single drawer. The struts on along the rear wall provide support to the curved back piece.

The bases ganged together for installation.

After the cases were secured, I bent several layers of thin plywood and secured them to the support struts shown earlier.

With a project like this, a lot of custom templates and jigs are required to manufacture the necessary parts. This template was for the plywood seat base.

The plywood seat fit and installed.

Each of the three units got a solid maple drawer box using housed rabbet joints pinned with walnut dowels (not visible here). This drawer box for the center unit was one of the more challenging aspects of this project.

After fitting the drawers in the cases, I installed an upper plywood cap to tie everything together and trimmed out the back wall to create a paneled look. I also bent and installed trim and baseboard pieces to tie the project into the existing trim scheme.

The finished painted banquette with handles installed on the drawers.