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Dinning Tables
I don’t think many people give dining tables their due. If we let them, the dining tables we sit around aren’t just something to hold dinner off the ground while you are watching the news on TV. Not so long ago they used to be the focus of family. Everyone would gather while dinner was served, chat, argue, be family. Possibly an old-fashioned notion today, or perhaps not.
The glass topped versions I do when I want to achieve a three-dimensional sculpted look – you can see through the glass and see the lines and forms I have created so that sitting at the table is not just a utilitarian exercise, but also one which introduces a bit of artistry with the sausages and mash! I have deliberately employed visual ‘sleight of hand’ when creating these pieces. Look carefully and you can see where I have deliberately thrown a couple of the legs off the vertical to introduce a more organic, gracile form. Note the flowing curves which link all the design processes – there aren’t a lot of straight lines in these pieces because there aren’t a lot of straight lines in nature!
With some of the pieces, I have tried to pursue this organic theme to the extent that if you make a sudden loud noise, the piece just might up and run off. It will be up to you to then coax it out of its hiding place under the house with a handful of M&M s!
Having thought about this for many years, it strikes me that the evolution of humanity involves creating civilisational straight lines then inventing something that will make all those straight lines wobbly again. I have just cut out the middleman!
The tables with the solid timber tops are different again. Each top has been hand-selected and finished to showcase the dramatic colour and grains of our native Australian hardwood timbers. These can’t be replicated anywhere else in the world. I have usually supported those tops on a fluid, sculpted base, again to introduce that organic oeuvre into the design. I like using pedestal bases because the legs don’t get in the way, being tucked under as they are. As well, and as I alluded to above, the only straight line in the piece is the tabletop, and that’s only to stop the glass of wine from falling over!
The pieces are finished using natural oils, so if, after the 47th glass of wine you spill some on the table, licking it up won’t poison you.
A good designer tries to anticipate every eventuality!