Rich-grained Douglas fir in a thick, rectangular slab curves up elegantly toward the corners and sits perfectly flat on top. A grid of carved dots sits proud of the curved underside. There's no skirt, no supports — just eight legs joined into two tops with joinery so strong the whole table sounds tight as a drum when struck with the palm of a hand.
A 14-foot dining table built from two matching seven-foot halves, made from reclaimed Douglas fir beams Andrew found abandoned a block from his loft on Alameda Street in Downtown LA — huge, twenty-foot lengths, tossed against a loading dock among garbage bags and graffiti. He ran back for a roommate to help load them into his van, eight feet hanging out the back the whole way home.
The legs are hand-chiseled directly into the top using Andrew's double-tiered wedged tenon joinery, finished with six coats of hand-rubbed tung oil. A single photograph by Andrew's roommate, Matt Lee, led directly to the table's inclusion in the Pasadena Museum of California Art's "Action/Reaction: California Design Biennial" and a subsequent magazine feature.