The Marqueterie Dining Table

pays homage to the great tables

around which one lingers.

It draws inspiration 

from ancestral savoir-faire,

and the marquetry of André-Charles Boulle,

perfected for Louis XIV.

 

Alive with asymmetry,

the oak is cut with a scalpel,

like a landscape of slivers.

Each leaf is laid with patience,

the invisible reaming

dissolving into the grain.

Two tinted oak legs,

architectural forms carved in hollow,

rest upon small natural-wood plates.

 

Structured and welcoming,

it asserts itself without ostentation -

through proportion

and the beauty of detail.

This is a table for gathering,

where the oak holds in its memory

the bursts of laughter

and joyful silences.