04/10/2026
Pro tip: it’s usually a good sign when as you’re prepping a table for delivery, your wife asks if you can build the same one for your own house.
Also Pro tip: not all commissions are billable.
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Designed in close collaboration with the client who is a professional architect, the real highlight of this piece is the two curved pedestals. If you follow their curvature at the floor, you will notice that they actually complete a perfect circle together. Each pedestal was made using the barrel making technique of coopering four square boards together, then carving the inside and outside faces to a smooth semi circle. Done primarily with handplanes and a card scraper, because…I’m a glutton for punishment AND great final results.
Lastly, there’s the top. I’ve always loved a boat shape—it gives you the practicality of a rectangle with some of the intimacy of a round table. I lucked out at , digging deep into a pile of Cherry from the “back-back” to handpick four clear, extra-wide boards. Each one has its own mix of straight grain and swirling figure, and together they really come to life.
Safe to say…this design might be making another appearance soon.
