1Project Information
An angsana tree once stood on the grounds of a private residence. When it came down, the client made a choice: to keep it.
We worked with the salvaged timber to produce a complete suite — a 3.6-metre dining table, a coffee table, two side tables, and four stump stools. One tree, continuing to inhabit the same home.
At 3.6 by 1.4 metres, the dining table commands the room without announcing itself.
The live edge runs the full length, the angsana’s original boundary preserved and finished. Bow tie joints mark where the timber required intervention — structural by necessity, but worn openly.
The low-profile coffee table is designed around absence as much as presence. Its stacked layers and central recess draw the eye downward, framing the apple centrepiece.
The side tables play with a similar idea. The negative space where a third or fourth leg might be becomes the detail itself: a deliberate absence that creates tension between the heaviness of the wood and the openness of the form. Held together with dado joints, the horizontal planes of the piece appear to float.
The stump stools remain largely as found. Set against the precision of the pieces around them, their rawness is not a contrast in style but in time: the tree as it was, sitting alongside the tree as it became.
2Material And Finishes
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