Ian Carey, Console Table (FURNITURE 2025)

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Country

Canada

Material selection dictated design, based on the need to build with material on hand with Black Walnut saved from becoming firewood, used for the top, rails, and stretchers;poplar cut for landscape ties used for the double tapered legs; and Maple from a dry-checked pallet for the shelf and lower rails. Then came it's design; with the use of mortise and tenon joinery with the upper leg rails drawbored, and both upper and lower stretchers with through wedged tenons, and stub tenons for the floating top rails. Square cut nails for the shelf, maple slats, resawn from the pallet it once was, inspiring the shape and layout using quarter and flat sawn grain patterns and the use of epoxy and gold fleck within the dry checking cracks of the flat sawn boards keeping the hard use history of the wood intact with a fine sparkle that reveals itself in the right raking light. More expoy with gold fleck pigment, used to fill knot voids and injected into the pith channel exposed through the center of the table top. End grain and sap wood detail incorporated hand carved dappled texturing spread invitingly throughout to encourage the interaction of light and touch. This submission is to say thank you to Wood Review and the Makers that have participated in this event. I have drawn so much inspiration and knowledge from this international community that it would be a disservice not to share and give back. Thank you to all I have connected with.

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