Cantilevered Coffee Tables

I have made a series of coffee tables as a deconstruction of Nakashima - using found urban wood, rather than his virgin walnut. Nail holes and pock marks are visible along with the bug holes. Nakashima saved the wood from the forest floor, I save them from buildings about to be demolished and marry them with slabs. He lived in a time when forests were being cut down en masse and he could easily pick up the sticks, now we live in an era of climate change, and material preservation.

In the latest version, the largest by far, I made the base monumentally large with reclaimed redwood - expanding from the plank out into rectangular space, both visually and as an anchoring weight. I split the single cantilever arm into three, at an increasing angle, to make more forward momentum while always supporting the extended weight. But most of all, I think it’s taken a form of it’s own - one more centered in Northern California, the free spirit of a hand made shack on the beach.