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The Oxbow Table
Luigi Sussman
The Oxbow Table
Bubinga & American Ash
Finish: Osmo
1200mm L x 430mm W x 500mm H
Not For Sale
The top is made out of recycled Bubinga (African Rosewood). It is a torsion box design to reduce the weight of this beautiful but very hard and heavy timber. This wood was originally part of a large coopered barrel used for storing tannins for dying leather which accounts for the darker lower surface of the table sides. The mortises for joining the coopered barrel sides are still visible on the table sides and provide part of the woods history from abandoned barrel in South Auckland farm paddock to a piece of fine furniture made at the centre of fine woodworking in Nelson.
Hidden inside the compartments of the torsion box structure are messages written by all the students and staff - who knows when, where and if ever they will reveal themselves?
The legs are made of ebonised American Ash. They are each constructed from 14 tapered laminations to represent elephant tusks. The elephants may have at sometime roamed amongst these African trees . Both the tusks and the rosewood are now Cites protected and will never again be part of manmade objects. The tabletop and legs unite through solid brass stretchers.