This piece is made of extremely weathered elements of teak, flotsam from wrecked boats, that have been left in the rough, unfinished state in which we salvaged them.
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Dockwood Bench 2 (2013)
Announcing the Launch of the Dockwood Furniture Website!
The first day of Spring seems like an appropriate time for the launching of our new website, DockwoodFurniture.com. For some time we’ve had the problem of making pieces of furniture and having no place to put them. No more room in our house! So we’ve decided to sell some of them, and have built the website as a showcase.
Please visit us at:
http://www.dockwoodfurniture.com/
And a very happy Spring season to all!
Winter Stick Table No. 68 (2011)
We found that if you cut an old worn-out 4 x4 winter stick into three equal pieces they make perfect legs for a small drinks table, ideal for outdoor decks or porches. This one uses a heavy slab of cut slate as a table-top. (For more on winter sticks, see our November 16, 2013 post on the “Miss Piggy” Winter Stick Table.)
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Hurricane Sandy Occasional Table (2013)
We’ve said we don’t use driftwood in our furniture, but it’s not quite true. We differentiate “driftwood” from “dockwood,” our normal material, by defining it as tree trunks, roots, and branches salvaged from our saltwater environment, as opposed to lumber from old docks.
This table, part of our “Hurricane Sandy Collection,” was made from a broken slab of cut sandstone that had a hole drilled in it, and pieces of cypress trunks, all debris from the storm that was in a 5-foot pile in our yard.
Oak Tree in the Snow
Eichbaum im Schnee, painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1829), courtesy of the blog “Design Is Fine. History Is Mine,” and the Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.
A very respectful commemoration of an oak tree near the end of a long, hard, but beautiful life.
Raw Materials
Does this look like a pile of scrap wood to be thrown into a dumpster? No! They’re the components of our next Dockwood bench – in case you wondered what we start out with. It’s all flotsam from destroyed or damaged boat docks that has washed up on our beach. You can tell that this material has been at the mercy of nature for many, many years.
California Valley Oaks
Drawing – Dave Wilder (1963)
Baulk
Our conjecture on the timeline of a baulk of timber
Mature tree in a forest about to be logged > Log on a logging truck > Rough-sawn baulk of timber at a sawmill > Milled beam cut and drilled, assembled as an under-water part of a large boat dock > Long Island Sound flotsam after destruction of boat dock in hurricane or nor’easter > Hurricane Sandy debris in our neighbor’s back yard > Baulk (2012), a temporary sculpture made from various Hurricane Sandy debris > Baulk Bench 1 (2013), temporary Dockwood bench in our garden > Baulk of timber awaiting further Dockwood Furniture creative impulse.
From Nature to Man and Back Again
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