Start by creating a Cube Object (Objects>Primitive>Cube). Set it to X: 750, Y: 525 and Z: 310. This will be our wooden box. Now, every object in the real world has a small beveled or chamfered edge and so will our box. Double-click the box and set Fillet size to 1 and Fillet segment to 5.

You can texture a box like this without making it editable, but this time we'll transform it to polygons and points. Hit C on your keyboard to make it editable or go to Structure>Make Editable. Switch to Polygon View and with the Live Selection Tool select all six sides of the box by Shift-clicking on them. Save this selection with a Selection tag (Selection>Set Selection).

Now it's time to start texturing. Create a new material and call it "Wood" or something like that. Load this wooden map in the Colour Channel and this alpha map in the Alpha channel. Set the alpha channel to Soft and Invert. The wood map is from the web somewhere and the alpha map is actually a scan from the cover of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, with all the text and images removed and some scratches added.

The alpha map lets Cinema interpret the black areas of the map as opaque, wich in this case means that black areas will show the wood, and white areas as transparent, ie. they will be interpreted as "holes" in the texture. If you applied the texture as it is now, it would look like the image below. The wood is there and the alpha gives it a chipped appearance, but you will also need a base texture for the bex, something to show the brighter "inside" of the wood.

For the base texture you will create a new material and name it "Walnut". Load this wooden map in the Colour channel (it's from the Cinema 4D XL 6 CD) and close the material. Assign it to the box with Cubic mapping and set it to fit the object (Texture>Fit to Object).

OK, now it's time to assign our alpha-enhanced wooden texture. Apply it to the box with Cubic mapping and in the Restrict to Selection-field enter "Wood", ie. the selection you created earlier. This will ensure that the texture is applied to the sides only, leaving the beveled edges to have the base texture only. Set the material to Fit to Object to avoid tiling. Go into Polygon View and make sure you have the polygon selection we created earlier selected. If not, deselct all polygons and double-click the tag and select all.

Still in polygon mode select the texture tag "Wood". Now it's time for the plugin TexturePlus and the function Fit to Polygons wich will fit the selected textures to the selected polygons. Very handy and takes away a bit of the trouble with scaling textures to make them fit properly.

And that's about it. We've made one single material for all sides wich means that the material will be squashed on the top, bottom and sides of the box. Not a big deal for most renders but if you want to do it properly you should of course make a separate material for all sides, with corresponding alpha channels. The technique outlined above will however give you the basics and now it's up to you to take it to the next level :)