Big slab wood furniture is chic, but it is often very expensive. We recently found Jeff Taylor's Madara Designs, which fabricates a wide range of beautiful slab furniture right out of Brooklyn at better prices than the fancy pants at BDDW and Tucker Robbins.
And before you worry, Madara only sells ecologically sound wood that has been harvested from fallen or buried trees throughout Central America. Slicing up the logs into generous slabs, Madara's design sense pairs the exotic hardwoods with the "clean modern lines of handmade metalwork". There are also some amazing "driftwood" pieces.
All Madara's work is custom, but they do everything from small coffee tables to huge dining tables for the Prince of Jordan. Take a look through their gallery and give them a call.
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It might be a DIY project to make a bench or a rough coffee table, but the bigger slab tables, with book-matched panels and thick tops, aren't something you would want to attempt without some serious equipment and practice.
As far as costs go, it might range from $500 to $2500 for a coffee table, and $1250 to $6500 to much higher even ($30K for something nice from Hudson Furniture) for a dining table. SO much variation based on size, thickness, species and perfection of the slabs, as was mentioned before.