We love Brent Comber and his Alder wood tables, pictured up top. They're built up of small alder branches, bunched together to create massive, chunky tables. Check out what Comber did at Vancouver's Salt Tasting Room to make a variation on these tables a bit more practical...
Glass tops! You can still see the beautiful cut ends of the branches, but the tables are made more suitable for dining and easy cleaning with these simple glass tops. The pic below is also from the Salt Tasting Room. That's an 18-foot-long table designed by Comber from a single slab of wood.
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Beautiful, if not so comfortable. Not enough room to get your legs under there, so you'll end up perched on that backless stool, pointing your legs to the side of the table, which hold your drink. Me, I'd rather be comfortable than stylish.
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I've seen his work in person its very beautiful.
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That long table looks great, but I hope he didn't take an old growth tree for it...
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AlexanderB, it could have been from one that fell in Vancouver's crazy wind storm the fall (or year?) before Salt Tasting Room opened. Lots of old growth trees fell over, and I think some were used for this sort of thing.
My design prof in college always said that the materials of a design had to mean something to the design, not just be for ease or convenience (he referred specifically to glass tops on old trunks), but in this case, I think the glass enhances the design and finishes it in a way it needed. It's reminiscent of vancouver too, with trees and glass buildings and the silvery-glassy light through most of the months
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The wood is from fallen trees or where they have already been cleared out.
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I'm salivating. Those tables are to die for!!!
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