Wide, splayed legs and a low, carved stance give this table the look of a toad settling into a crouch — which is exactly where the name comes from.
Made from antique reclaimed Douglas fir beams in the LA Arts District, in a studio above the former Cirrus Gallery, and milled on a CNC router at SCI-Arc. The underside is carved in a vaulted pattern modeled on the muqarnas of the Alhambra and the tiled tunnels of Grand Central Station — rooms where, Andrew has found, a whisper into one corner carries clearly to a person facing the opposite corner, the sound traveling up and over the arch. The table itself doesn't do that. The legs are hand-chiseled directly into the top with Andrew's double-tiered, dovetailed mortise-and-tenon joinery, locked with wedges — no screws or fasteners, built to last like the rest of that joinery family, running through the Mini Belly, Wing, and Triple Belly Tables, the Dragon and Dragon Drop Tables, the Stone Table, the White Whale and Baby Whale Benches, and the XOX Belly Table.