Greene & Gruene Coffee/Cocktail Table - Of all the tables I have ever built, excluding Karan Henson’s dining table, this is my favorite. It is not only beautiful, but it’s proportions approach perfection. It is large, but in the right place, it’s presence is commanding. 55 !/2” long by 24” wide by 18” high. Greene & Gruene is my own furniture design for a line influenced by the Greene & Greene furniture of the early 1900s, but with a distinctive Texas accent. Typically, my version will incorporate Texas hardwoods (almost always mesquite), includeTexas ebony accents and reflect iconic Texas lines. This is #2 of the series. This table has tapered legs whose outward lines come from the windmill towers which grace our Texas land. The skirts and stretchers capture visions of plateaus and caprocks if you look not at the wood, but the negative space beneath. Then you can see those lines so common throughout much of West and Far West Texas. Texas ebony - rare, hard, heavy and rich chocolatey dark - accepts a high polish and evokes a sense of refined yet proud joinery. The top, comprised of two pieces of massive book-matched mesquite, is substantially clear and spectacular. So impressive were the two boards when I discovered them that I glued them together so they would never be separated and let the resulting tabletop push the dimensions and design. If there was a place in our home, that is where it would live. Sadly, it won’t fit. Original asking price - $3500. Now $2000.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:19:26 +0000
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