Australia's NSW mid north coast is where these wooden tables are created, and we value the local hard wood for their individual beauty, colors, and durability to be the medium for this uniquely sculpted wooden table designs.
Most species of our Australian hard wood timber have been subject to this concept of furniture sculpting, and we are experiencing excellent handmade wooden table design.
Judges Comment A strikingly functional piece, aptly presented from an artistic viewpoint, by way of the carved vortex apertures indicating powerful rising force. The reflective effect of the internal finish contrasts nicely with the natural external surface: Thoughtfully designed from the environmental element.
Jude McBean Helen Goldsmith Chris Timmins Jan Chivas Brian Burn Ray Faggotter Marilyn Gibson
After years of drying, our patience is rewarded when the original roughed-out sculpted design receives it's debut. To see this saved timber beautified by using innovative sculptural techniques, and continuing to learn more acquired style, we hope to continue to create stunning handmade wooden tables
I am grateful for the ability to express myself this way, in granting these forest giants the grandest purpose possible, in testimony to their continued majestic existence and although the enlightenment does not originate with me, the training to "let go and be free" is our responsibility and privilege to learn.
A further long wait is experienced as the chosen protective clear finish takes two months to dry before the coffee table can be polished and waxed.
Our sculptural techniques making coffee tables have improved during the 15 years this apprenticeship has evolved, and now timber forks weighing 1200kg or more are sculpted away so that two people can carry them, or one person can nudge them around the lounge room. As you can imagine, the grain in large timber forks are interlocked, or what others call fiddle back, compression timber, knotty, birds eye, wavy, some of my Camphor Laurel coffee tables have all of the above. After years the grain striation becomes more appealing as the large surface area of these coffee tables is harmonious in its expressing the natural subtle forces still present inside the wood. I have dutifully flattened the surface of all my tables only to find that the striating cannot be tamed, now I desire the effect, as the table forms its own sculptural relief, and I have not been displeased with these natural phenomenon as the table surface remains serviceable.
Although Sculptables are handmade, rustic, our techniques ensure that the table tops are always finished parallel to the footing, Guaranteed.