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Night Stand
A canted trough, lacquered red, for the book you are halfway through.
Two slabs, splayed, with a trough cut on the diagonal between them. Books go in spine-down at the angle you would hold them anyway; the top surface takes a cup. It is small enough to live beside a chair and stubborn enough to be the only thing in the room you actually reach for.
The trough is lacquered a deep red, and the colour does something the walnut cannot do on its own — it turns a shelf into an interior. Through-wedged tenons pin the top to the sides and are left showing on the surface, so the joinery reads as pattern rather than as evidence.
Shown here in black walnut and in ash. The red stays either way.
Specifications
- Species
- Black walnut; also shown in ash
- Finish
- Red lacquered interior
- Availability
- Commission — walnut, ash, or your species
Interested in this piece?
Every piece is built to order. Tell Matt what you have in mind — the room, the species, the dimensions — and he'll take it from there.
