Tripod occasional or side table

“In Support of the Gift that is the Tree”

We designed the table to be a functional piece that is also a work of sculpture that embodies carved, painted, and gilded surfaces. The three legs represent three human abstracted figures supporting the highly figured book matched top, which symbolizes the beauty, majesty, and individuality of the tree. The carving represents stylized variations in natural bark and rocks/earth that are gilded to represent the earth’s richness. The wood used in the construction of the piece is from a walnut tree that came down in a storm and a friend of mine gave it to me. We had trunk cut n 9 foot lengths, sawn in slabs, and kiln dried. The gilded surfaces are both 22-karat and 18-karat French Gold. This coupled with the use of low VOC adhesives, moderately low VOC coatings, and our electricity is supplied via photovoltaic cell solar panels follows LEED Gold and Silver Certification Guidelines as well as Green Practices, and Best Practices. This exact table has been sold, but a nearly identical tables can be designed specifically for the client and hand fabricated to order changing sizes and wood species as required.

Construction:

Construction: Blind and through wedged mortice and tenon joints to join the legs to the book matched slab top and blind spline to join the slabs for the top.

Materials:

American black walnut figured slabs, artist oil base paint, French pale gold leaf, Palladium leaf, oil sizing, artist oil paints, and moderately low VOC conversion varnish.