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 | Nov 14, 2016
KW Office Desk Much of contemporary design is the combination of disparate influences. Of course, the trick is to make them feel right together (or deliberately wrong!). In this case the client and I had ideas coming Scandinavian and Chinese directions, both very...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 12, 2016
5 Degree Parsons Dining Table At first glance an ordinary parsons table, in fact the angles of this table are all pushed in toward the center by five degrees, a bit like my 5 Degree Bench from years ago. Here the effect is a perspective that seems a little wrong. The...
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 5, 2016
Cut This One Off at the Knees This open-faced cabinet is an example of when the geometry just works right. All the angles are 30, 60, or 90 degrees, and the overall dimensions are exactly 3 x 5 x 1 feet. The diagonals on the face would create an equalateral triangle...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 9, 2016
Crotch walnut end tables Where a large limb diverges from the trunk, there’s a tremendous load bearing on that joint. The tree has to do something to keep the limb from simply splitting off and falling, so typically the wood fibers above the crotch weave...
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,...
