Hello AT,
So check out this table from page 105 in the fall/winter of InStyle Home. It's described as a cocktail table of Lucite and burl wood in a story on Reese and Shawn Forbes. Can your readers help me find something similar? I also have a piece of wood that could be the top but I have no idea where to get the Lucite base in the NYC area.
Please help, Lyla
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http://www.plexi-craft.com/
They are in NYC and do custom work in addition to their stock items.
how do you attach the top to the lucite base
robert--
I'd guess either a routed channel in the base of the wood, or small corner brackets.
Well if you're having the base custom-made I would think they could fabricate a long "L" bracket out of plexi, fuse it to the base and drill pilot holes (complete with counter-sink) for the screws... this way it won't be seen as it'll be clear plexi...
But that's just the way I'd do it... ;)
This is a Lawson Fenning Design
http://www.lawsonfenning.com/
It's called the Redwood Table
What a cool idea! I think this is a fantastic idea!
Try ABC Carpet!
im gonna make one
Craigslist constantly has these lucite bases, check also the "Long Island" - I generally find groovier (and cheaper) stuff in that section. Have seen lots of them on ebay too, I was on a lucite rampage a year or two ago. Search also the word "acrylic". Good luck!
I'm sorry to be the one to point out that the Emporor is actually wearing nothing...but this is disturbingly ugly.
I think the Emperor is partially clad.
I like the idea of the table, but find that published image SO disturbingly retro that it looks like a vintage photo, and not entirely in a good way.Looks like the untouched parental home of one of the hipster editors...
I think the table idea dangerously straddles the "chic" and "craft fair" line... but think the end result would rely primarily on the rest of the room's styling. If everything else were ultra-sleek, boxy and "non-organic", I could see the table working nicely. Among a roomful of equally "quirky" vintage items, I think it faulters.
check out www.johnhoushmand.com for a more upscale sleek model
That John Houshmand stuff is seriously gorgeous.
try BDDW, they do lots of slab tables
http://www.bddw.com/furniture/table/slabcoffee_tabl.html
I know where you can find it... get in your time machine and go straight back to the Seventies. My family had something similar growing up--with a strategically placed asparagus fern in one of the holes in the burl.
It's inelegant, clunky, and so not cool. Sorry, it just isn't. Neither are leg warmers.
You just must not have the legs to pull legwarmers off.