Townsend coffee table

Townsend coffee table: walnut & bleached ash w/ blue grain filler 17H x 15W x 60L. Starts at $3500.

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cherry, walnut, and blackwood:

The Townsend coffee table was originally built as a custom commissioned piece that I designed for a couple great local clients. The house where the table now resides is on the shores of Townsend “Gut”, a busy channel of water here in mid-coast Maine that separates Southport Island from Boothbay, spanned by a swing bridge.

The main requirement of the design was that it be fairly shallow to allow sufficient space remaining in the room. After sketching a few designs and making a couple models of the more promising ones, my clients chose this one.

With a variety of cherry furniture pieces already occupying the room we went with a cherry top on a walnut base (pictured directly above). The long, elegant, elliptical shaped top was a perfect fit for the room, allowing ample room to negotiate around its slim, rounded edges.

The lines and structure of the base take their cue from my Cirrus3 console table. On the original Townsend, I even added the blackwood splines at the joints, like I do on my Cirrus tables.

This table can be – and has been- produced in a variety of woods; please contact me to discuss the possibilities. For variations in size and proportion of this design, please see my Townsend2 coffee table.