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03 · Furniture

Furniture.

Case pieces, tables, huntboards, sideboards, and cabinets — built to be handed down. Traditional joinery throughout, and every project starts with a specific piece of wood we chose to build around.

Commission

Federal card table.

Quilted mahogany with inlays of gaboon ebony and pearwood. Roughly 200 hours to complete — every inlay started as rough-sawn lumber, and the piece was hand-routed to accept each one, at the client's request that it be built as closely as reasonably feasible to techniques used during the Federal period.

Federal-style demilune card table in quilted mahogany, front hero view.
Front heroQuilted mahogany with ebony and pearwood inlay
Federal card table with a lead crystal bowl on top, front view.
Styled with crystal bowl
Federal card table, three-quarter angle.
Three-quarterTapered legs, string inlay
Federal card table with crystal bowl, angled view.
Angled

A matched pair

Brother & sister hall tables.

Quilted maple, curly walnut, and gaboon ebony — floating tops on tapered walnut legs. The pair was cut from bookmatched slabs and joined with ebony bowties; the two consoles are siblings by construction and by material.

Brother hall table — floating quilted maple top on curly walnut base, front three-quarter.
Brother · floating topLive-edge quilted maple on curly walnut
Brother hall table — alternate angle.
Brother · alternate angle
Slab top detail with gaboon ebony bowtie.
Slab topEbony bowtie inlay
Sister hall table with two hurricane candle vessels, front three-quarter.
Sister · front three-quarterStyled with glass hurricanes
Sister hall table — angled view.
Sister · angled
Raw quilted maple and curly walnut slabs before being built into the pair.
Before the buildThe two slabs, chosen for the pair
Top-down view of the quilted maple slab top.
Slab top · top-downThe finished quilted maple face
Quilted maple top on curly walnut base, showing the gaboon ebony bowtie inlay.
Ebony bowtie · in placeQuilted maple over curly walnut base

Commission

Curly walnut live-edge coffee table.

A family-room piece in figured walnut, built for a family with several teenage boys. Per the client's brief: built for punishment. Heavy trestle base, thick top, finished tough.

Curly walnut live-edge coffee table on a heavy trestle base — angle 1.
Family-room heroLive-edge top on heavy trestle
Curly walnut coffee table — alternate angle.
Alternate angle

Bow-front glove tables · No. 1

Curly cherry glove table.

A bow-front hall/glove table in curly cherry. Tapered legs, deep apron, hand-rubbed oil finish that lets the ripple move under the light.

Curly cherry bow-front glove table with a candelabra on top.
Front three-quarterStyled with candelabra
Curly cherry bow-front glove table — alternate angle.
Alternate angle

Bow-front glove tables · No. 2

Flame maple glove table.

The same bow-front form in flame maple — a lighter, more electric sibling to the cherry version above.

Flame maple bow-front glove table — three-quarter view.
Three-quarter
Flame maple bow-front glove table — top figure detail.
Top figureFlame maple chatoyance

Dining

Curly cherry & curly walnut dining tables.

Two dining tables, two families — one in curly cherry with matching upholstered chairs, one in figured curly walnut on a heavy trestle with iron-and-wood side chairs. Both built around a specific top.

Curly cherry dining table with floral-upholstered chairs.
Curly cherry · with chairs
Curly cherry dining tabletop — chatoyance and streaks.
Cherry · top figure
Curly cherry dining tabletop — closer detail.
Cherry · top closeup
Curly cherry dining table with cherry upholstered chairs, in room.
Cherry · with chairs, alt
Curly walnut trestle dining table with wrought-iron side chairs.
Curly walnut · with iron chairs
Curly walnut trestle dining table — alternate three-quarter.
Walnut · alternate angle

Case pieces

Walnut sideboard.

Solid walnut with tiger maple drawer fronts, raised-panel doors, and hand-cut dovetails throughout. Brass Chippendale pulls, cove molding at the top, tapered legs.

Walnut sideboard — full three-quarter hero.
Hero
Walnut sideboard — alternate angle.
Alternate angle
Walnut sideboard — open drawer with dovetails and tiger maple front.
Dovetails · open drawerTiger maple front, brass pull
Walnut sideboard — drawer detail closeup.
Drawer detail

Case pieces

Solid mahogany hutch.

A two-piece hutch built in solid mahogany, with a curly mahogany case top that catches the light differently from every angle. Ogee cornice, mullioned glass doors on the upper cabinet, raised-panel doors and hand-fit drawers on the base, ogee bracket feet. Hardware is extruded solid brass — swan-neck bail pulls on the drawers, batwing drop-pulls on the doors.

Solid mahogany hutch — full front three-quarter hero.
Hero
Solid mahogany hutch — angled view of the curly mahogany case top with mullioned glass doors and ogee cornice.
Curly mahogany case topOgee cornice, mullioned glass
Solid mahogany hutch — base sideboard with two drawers, four raised-panel doors, extruded brass hardware, and ogee bracket feet.
Base & hardwareExtruded brass pulls, ogee bracket feet

Heirloom furniture, made to order.

Every commission starts with a conversation about the space, the use, and the wood. Lead time is measured in months, not weeks — because these pieces are meant to outlast the buyer.

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