The tabletop's organic, free-form shape sails outward into long, pointed cantilevered overhangs, with a grid of squares carved into its underside. It looks like it shouldn't hold its own weight — but it does, thanks to a very dense wood and a joint built to last.
The top is a single slab of stone pine, urban-salvaged from a median in Pasadena, California, where the tree had been irrigated daily and grew far faster and larger than it should have — dense, heavy, and strong enough that its own falling branches eventually forced the city to take it down. Stone pine is harder and denser than almost any hardwood Andrew has worked with, which is what allows those long overhangs to hold. The legs are dunnage oak — scrub oak that spent sixty years traveling the Santa Fe rail line, raising freight off the floor of a train the way a pallet does today — hand-mortised into the top with a double-tiered mortise-and-tenon joint, pinned with contrasting-color wedges visible through the surface, no screws or fasteners anywhere.