One of our favorite resources for live edge tables, Urban Hardwoods recently opened an outpost here in Los Angeles on the design corridor on La Cienaga. We recently got a chance to stop by. In person, the pieces are as majestic and as breathtaking as the trees from which they spring, an fitting tribute to Mother Nature. They truly inspire awe.
Although we were originally drawn to Urban Hardwoods for their live edge tables, they also create tree stump tables and smooth edge slice tables (which join together two slices from the trunk of a single, narrow tree so that the two planks form a mirror image of each other) as well as headboards, bar stools and mirrors. We love that no trees are harmed in the making of their furniture; they harvest trees in Washington State which have been downed through age or weather, which cannot be salvaged and would have been discarded. Made primarily out of native redwood, madrone, walnut, elm, cedar and sycamore trees, each piece of furniture is numbered in order to keep track of the provenance of each piece of wood. This is truly living in harmony with nature.
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Comments (6)
Beautiful. Too bad the prices on the long dining room tables are 13,000 .
Beautiful but OMG EXPENSIVE. People would probably be more into buying environmentally responsibly if it were more economically reasonable. :/
Going green...Green for Green. It's silly.
There is a place in Lexington, KY called Huckleberry's Chair Fetish that is closing this week. The woman that owns it makes similar pieces and they are all marked down right now.
"Trees from which they spring"? "No trees were harmed?" They would have been discarded? In what--the compost pile of the forest? Please. The trees are dead. Let's watch the purple prose.
Mr. Faux,
These are urban trees that died due to disease, weather damage or have to be removed due to hazard. If they had not been salvaged they would have ended up in landfills or as firewood. There are many companies who do this. My husband is an arborist who salvages urban wood, which is why I'm familiar with the process.