Curvaceous carvings take over the entire underside of this minimal table form, defeating the boring minimal ornamentation of modern design with excitingly smooth, free-form shapes decorating the bottom. The wood glows light brown with bright amber highlights, enhancing the richness of its polished grain. In a feast of smooth shapes and soft tones, the warm wood this table is carved of holds good feelings and memories of times past.
The underside is CNC-carved in a pattern modeled on the rock formations of Joshua Tree, scaled down until they read equally well as water-worn river stones. The top is urban-salvaged Douglas fir from columns pulled out of a Silver Lake parking structure that once served the earliest Hollywood movie studios on that site, sliced and book-matched for the grain pattern.
The breadboard-end sides come from a separate, much older source: Southern Yellow Pine removed during a renovation of the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Boston, a building constructed in 1831 — meaning the wood aged in place as structural timber for roughly 195 years on top of its own two-plus centuries of growth as old-growth pine, the kind once claimed by the King of England for Royal Navy ship masts. The legs are Live Oak dunnage from the historic Santa Fe Railway line, bought together with the LA Box Collective for their 2011 "Dunnage Show," and mortised into the top with Andrew's double-tiered, dovetailed mortise-and-tenon joinery, wedged and fastener-free like the rest of the carved-bottom belly tables. Finished with linseed oil, oil-based polyurethane, and wax.