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Category Archives: Tables


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Landworth Tables

diameters: 14-22″, heights: 15-19″, walnut and wenge

The client had this interesting idea for little coffee tables that could be huddled together or moved around the room, even sat on. The result is these seven tripod tables incorporating a single leg that comes through the top and a wenge butterfly key.

“Landworth Tables”
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Landworth Sideboard

60″x20″x36″ walnut and wenge

An expanded reworking of an earlier design, this sideboard has three drawers with intricate latticework, two sliding doors, and a floating bookmatched top.

“Landworth Sideboard”
My first piece with the Beston Barnett logo inlaid into the side!
These slabs of bookmatched claro walnut have a lot of color.


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Bronner Sideboard

60″x20″x36″ walnut and wenge

With three small drawers and two sliding doors, this sideboard combines a Chinese silhouette with contemporary lines, exposed joinery, and rich contrasting wood grains.

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Through dovetails and mortise-and-tenon joints complement Chinese legs and a floating top.
Through dovetails and mortise-and-tenon joints complement Chinese legs and a floating top.
Bookmatched walnut top with wenge butterfly keys and a hint of shaping to accentuate the grain.
Bookmatched walnut top with wenge butterfly keys and a hint of shaping to accentuate the grain.

 


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Brantuas’ Sideboard and Cabinet

table: 57″x20″x41″, cabinet: 46″x17″x16″, walnut and ebonized walnut

Square Kufic – an ancient form of Arabic calligraphy – ornaments a sideboard table and matching wall cabinet of solid walnut.

The client’s name, “Brantuas”, is transliterated into Kufic and then repeated as a design motif in the facade’s carving.
The sculpted legs were designed to match chairs in the client’s dining room.


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Bookmatched Table

43″x22″x19″, walnut

Coffee table made from a single board of Black Walnut. The top is “bookmatched” for matching grain pattern on both sides, and the shape of the top follows the revealed sapwood.

“Bookmatched Table”
From one side, it looks like it’s wearing little slippers.
Tops fitted into grooves in the cross-piece trestle and buttery walnut curves.
Even plain walnut grain can do wonderful things.

 


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Dragon Coffee Table

56″x22″x18″, Carolina cherry and mahogany

This sculptural table balances natural and rectilinear elements with a cantilevered structure.

The balance of natural and straight lines here is very much inspired by the work of George Nakashima.
Carolina cherry is a very rare wood to find in lumber stores; this piece came from a down tree through the Urban Lumber Recovery Program.
A rectangle adds surprise to the natural edges of the top.


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Maple Island

44″x24″x37″, rock maple

This kitchen island has a butcher block top, sculpted legs, and a short apron to allow stools underneath.

The legs and apron are connected with joints technically called “double interlocking through tenons.”
Each leg features a different sculptural element.