There is a new design to welcome to the Lloyd Brooke Furniture family. The Finn bespoke coffee table. The client wanted a custom coffee table with prerequisites being splayed legs and baby safe edges.
I started by gluing and scraping the top, followed by attaching the breadboard ends. These help keep the tabletop flat. The trick is to glue the centre but not the edges, to allow for expansion and contraction of the timber.
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Breadboard Ends -
Cabinet Scraper
Next was the frame design. I wanted to create an elegant statement. These two words guided my design decisions throughout the process. Once a rough sketch was drawn, I created a prototype out of scrap. Prototypes are invaluable because a drawing lives in a different world to a true 3d object. The prototype was hideous but earned it’s keep with the information it provided.
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Plywood View -
Ugly Prototype
I then pieced together the frame out of Blackwood.
Once the edges were smoothed and angles refined, I believe we came out alright in the end.
