Andrew's first small dining table built in Los Angeles, from Douglas fir reclaimed out of a Hollywood Hills home renovation. The legs are red oak that once lined the baggage-claim lobby walls at LAX, protecting them from luggage carts — stained dark brown, a color Andrew preserved in the chamfer to keep the wood's own history legible, the same idea behind the Space Café Table lineage and the first belly tables.
The legs use the same double-tiered, dovetailed mortise-and-tenon joinery as the rest of the carved-bottom belly tables, locked into the top with wedges and no screws or fasteners — but here it's paired with an X-shaped brace underneath, since this top runs much thinner than the belly tables' thicker carved stock and needed the extra support. The X-shaped inlays across the top are Andrew's own version of a butterfly patch used to stabilize unstable wood in the Nakashima tradition — a half-lap joint glued and mortised about an inch deep with a chisel and hammer, just as strong as a true butterfly key but distinctly his own. Often shown with a set of four Low Back Riiska Chairs.