Sitting Down to Dinner at a 1,000 Year Old Table
Growing up, my mother always tried her hardest to encourage us to eat dinner at the actual dinner table. I liked to sit at the same place: a seat near the head of the table that held a drawer. My mom used to lay a pillow in this drawer and me in that pillow when I was a baby and she was cooking. (The kitchen and living room were less than five steps from one another.) I can still remember the exact color of that dining room table.
Sitting in the Charleston showroom is a dining table so unique and so grand it will make you pause to ask yourself, “Why don’t I throw more dinner parties? Why don’t we eat at the dinner table more often?”
Surely if you owned this table, you would.
The table top is a single slab of cypress that’s estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. It measures 38 inches across, 8 feet in length and seats 10 easily. Just imagine all that this mammoth cypress witnessed before it became a table — and the magnificent life that lies before it! Supported by traditional mahogany joinery, the table isn’t constructed using any glue or screws. (The designer and builder is Guyton Ash, a graduate of the American College of the Building Arts.) The base of the table is a pine stump and is designed in such a way that the table looks as though its growing from the ground. The table is indisputably beautiful, but there’s something about knowing how much the wood has seen and been through. It is all the more precious because of its age.
I’m convinced even the simplest of meals– served directly from the microwave or from Chinese take out containers– taste just a bit better served on a table like this.
Where would you put this reclaimed cypress dining table?
Reclaimed Cypress Dining Table ($12,500)
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