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| Shipping destination | Cost | Additional items |
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| United Kingdom | £20.00 | |
| EU & Northern Ireland | Doesn't deliver here | |
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I've been making furniture for a good few years now. I've made big things and small things. I loved making all of them. When i saw this huge slab, rough cut and chunky i knew i had to make something like nothing else in the world. So i did
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This is a natural object, wood movement can occur in different situations. Cracks can appear, this is way the table balances its self. Returns not accepted for reasons due to wood movement
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A large coffee table made from a very old, very large english elm tree. They don't often get to be this large. There will never be another table like this ever.
Dimensions: Height - 540mm Diameter - 1000/1100mm
A tree surgeon friend rang me 7 years ago saying he had a present for me. He turned up at my small workshop with the back of the car lower than the front. As soon as he opened the boot i saw why. There was a huge cut slice from the biggest elm tree i have ever seen. i stacked it up with lots of other slabs i had. it spent 5-6 years drying out and becoming workable. Since then i have spent time on and off flattening and shaping the slab to become the beautiful piece of wood it is today. The first time i saw the grain emerge from the chainsaw rough cut faces was a wonderful moment. I then spent more hours than i like to admit deciding on the base for it. I went through a stone phase, a metal phase and finally stopped thinking about it and grabbed some old oak i had waiting for just such an occasion. I went onwards with a loose idea of what i wanted to create. I cut, carved and sculpted the base into a branches, trunk and roots style. Which i think came out pretty good.
The top has a wonderful deep brown in the centre and changes to a beautiful grain pattern to a lighter brown in the sapwood around the edge. It has been finished with danish oil and with regular application (or when it looks a little dry) it will look the same as today in 20 years or more.
Designed by Ollie Aptus in Eastbourne
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