by LongGrainFurniture | Jun 20, 2018
Stitched Elliptical Coffee Table Two-dimensionally, the top of this table has a loose, intuitive composition where my interventions just fit nicely within the flowing natural grain of the wood. Three-dimensionally, it demanded some balance to this softness: I gave it...
by LongGrainFurniture | Nov 4, 2017
y=6x^2 Mathematics are at the core of good design through the ages, and the modernism of the mid-20th Century was no exception. This coffee table uses a strict parabolic equation to arrive at a form popular then, shining a light on modern inspirations. To freshen it...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jan 16, 2017
Triskelion Coffee Table Named for the three-legged geometric figure that appears so often in Celtic imagery and elsewhere, this is the Triskelion Coffee Table. It’s built with very tight-grained old-growth reclaimed cedar beams (really gorgeous and special...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jan 16, 2017
Ash slab bench/coffee table Deceptively simple in form, the allusions here don’t stop unfolding. There’s landscape. There’s structure. There’s entropy and intervention, as well as so many other ideas wrapped up inside. It’s going to look...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 3, 2016
#Hashtag coffee tables These quartersawn white oak coffee tables bring lightness and clean geometry. True and honest joinery shines in the details. They’ll rise proudly from that awesome rug you just bought, and complement a chic, modern sofa. There are just two...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 10, 2016
Three Roads Diverged in a Walnut Wood I believe table bases ought to have some relationship to their tops.This beautiful slab of American black walnut features a trunk and two branches, so that’s where I went with the base too. Four long and strong bowties,...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 9, 2016
After George (a coffee table) A good designer is continually learning. I found I needed a remedial course in the sensibility of the mid-20th-C. West-Coast master George Nakashima, and this coffee table taught me a lot. It’s not meant to masquerade as his work,...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 8, 2016
Benrubi Table The Bonni Benrubi Gallery, an Uptown New York City art gallery, appears at art fairs around the world. Renting furniture for each show was getting expensive, so they commissioned me to design and build a table they could bring with them. The table...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 8, 2016
Triangular Table #1 One of the principles that guides design of wooden objects is that solid wood moves. Its dimensions actually change as it absorbs and releases moisture through the seasons. And the force of this expansion/contraction is incredibly strong, so you...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 5, 2016
The 5-Degree Coffee Table I try to limit designs to just a few elements. In designing this piece, I had a natural texture from the wood, a bold color, and a square U-shaped structure joined by dovetails. It was an alright starting point, but it needed just a little...
