Chinese Wood Dog House

Curled eaves and carved lattice. The dog has not been told about the mortgage.

This dog house comes from China and is contemporary, made of elm wood. The upswept roofline borrows directly from Chinese temple and palace architecture, where curving eaves helped throw rainwater clear and signaled importance, here reassigned to a smaller client. A ribbed roof ends in four tightly scrolled tips. Pierced panels of interlocking petals frame an open doorway, above plain paneled lower sections, on a low plinth. Thirty-five and a half inches high and forty-four and a half long.

Sit. Stay. Admire the joinery.