This piece is all about what I personally like
in my furniture. The combination of the old or rough is refined
to some modern design. This table is made of mesquite, walnut, and
delrin, a high-tech black plastic. The top made of 4 boards, 3 mesquite
and 1 walnut. Each of the joints between the boards is unique and
quite irregular. The assembly of each joint is an 11 step process.
The top is cut with the outside edges in a long ellipses and the
ends of the table in a much longer ellipse, just giving all edges
a slight curve. The walnut is the center element and is pointed
on the ends. The top is 34 inches wide at one end and 42 inches
wide at the other. The 46-inch width is off center closer to the
wider end of the table. There is a two-inch apron set under and
back one and one half inches. It follows the perimeter of the table.
The legs on this table are a lamination of 3 two-inch thick pieces
of mesquite. The two on the outside of the laminations have the
same shape, maybe like leg thigh. They do not touch the ground.
The piece in center is pointed on the one the end. The silhouette
shape of this thigh shape meeting the longer pointed shape is the
same shape of each of end of the walnut piece in the top of the
table. The pointed shape on the end each leg, the last 2 inches,
is made of black plastic. The black plastic is mortised to the wood
at the end of the leg. The leg connection of the top has the center
section fully mortised up through the top and the two thigh shaped
outside layers only have of their tops mortised through. They are
held in position by black plastic dowels cut flush with the wood
and mirror polished. At the wide end of the table two legs are on
attached one half inch from the corner. At the smaller end the legs
are attached to the side of the table 9 inches from the end. The
table was a commission for a home in Mission, Texas. It sets on
a white marble floor in front of a wall of glass overlooking a lake.
The table is surrounded by10 modern Italian black leather chairs.
For a more detailed description of this sculpture
please contact hank@chronicart.net.
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