Thread: Tweed- a table

Interesting little table.

Originally Posted by Christos

Interesting little table.

I'm pleased it piqued your interest. In part I was exploring the general form to see if it might be adaptable for a larger version, perhaps even a dining table. For a dining table it would need a deeper curve to the slab legs for knee room and a much taller cut out from the bottom end of the slab for shin and foot room. Other changes might be two rails joining the slab legs and stout cross-bearers between the rails to hold the top, with gently curved convex edges, flat. Slainte.

Like the look of the table - and thanks for the link about finishing.

Maybe it's the angle you've photographed it from, but it looks a bit under-nourished to me. The straight lines accentuate the tallness. I'm thinking the design might actually work better in dining-table proportions?

Always risky, critiquing from a single pic, though........

Originally Posted by IanW

Always risky, critiquing from a single pic, though........

Interesting comment Ian. I'm not really sure what you mean by "undernourished", but I think I can infer your meaning. Of, course, there are more images available-- there's a link in my first post, so judging from just one photograph isn't strictly necessary. Slainte.

Neat little job!!!

Originally Posted by Sgian Dubh

Interesting comment Ian. I'm not really sure what you mean by "undernourished", but I think I can infer your meaning. Of, course, there are more images available-- there's a link in my first post, so judging from just one photograph isn't strictly necessary. Slainte.

Hi Richard - I meant it looks very tall & skinny, but that's just my opinion, and apologies for not looking at the other pics before I shot my mouth off, but it still looks skinny. However, the other pictures do show the leg design a lot better than the pic posted here. You are in Rennie-Mackintosh country, I think, so p'raps that has a bearing on how you like your furniture lines up there - I'm not a fan of his stuff as you may gather. I do like the leg design, and I do think it may look a lot better (to me) as a full-size table. No offense intended, just one person's reaction, & most likely a minority opinion.......

Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

Hi Richard - I meant it looks very tall & skinny, but that's just my opinion, and apologies for not looking at the other pics before I shot my mouth off, but it still looks skinny. However, the other pictures do show the leg design a lot better than the pic posted here. You are in Rennie-Mackintosh country, I think, so p'raps that has a bearing on how you like your furniture lines up there - I'm not a fan of his stuff as you may gather. I do like the leg design, and I do think it may look a lot better (to me) as a full-size table. No offense intended, just one person's reaction, & most likely a minority opinion.......Cheers,

I suspected that was what you meant Ian. However, in my defence the table did have to fit into a limited space with a radiator in the way in one direction and it had to allow a door to swing open, as well as be a specific height! So, for what would seem to be something that could be almost any size within reason, it's actually quite highly customised. Overall, I do like it, but I also think that with modifications as described before I think the design and the form would work perhaps even better on a large table.

Now you've mentioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh he tends to polarise opinion-- love him or hate him. I'm, perhaps a little unusually, in the middle with some elements of his work being admirable in my eyes, and other bits less so. His chairs are often attractive as designs, but some don't function particularly well regarding comfort and seating posture. The Glasgow school of Art is an architectural masterpiece in my opinion, and I've always enjoyed visiting it, although I haven't been there for several years now. Overall he's a very important figure within that Arts and Crafts generation of designers, makers, and other artistic types, the way some of those ideals and principles still resonate more than 100 years later. Slainte.