Cross Coffee Table

This coffee table is made from thick tinted glass that belonged to our neighbor. It is chipped but not jagged and has seen a lot. The base is a solid pine block with radial reclaimed wood supports. Sturdy, fashionable, environmentally sound, and multi-stylitic. It is kind of an industrial, meets urban, meets rural piece. It represents the Brooklyn way of simplicity, and repurposing.

Plank Lamp

 This lamp provides great accent lighting. It works to shine a light upon the focal point of the table's arrangement. Much of the light also shines back toward the wall. I can picture any number of small figurines, knickknacks, or seasonal decorations on the little ledge.
The contraction is all reclaimed wood, with long supporting bolts for the shade. Electrical wiring is done in house and guaranteed to last. Could we have hidden the wooden supports and cut them flush? Yes, but that isn't what we're about! We love seeing what makes up a piece of furniture and hope that others can appreciate that the piece of wood had a prior use and has been reimagined into something completely different.
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Wok and Block lamp

Have you ever seen a wok and thought "that would make a pretty kickass lamp"? Well we did, and we have made the thought a reality. From the heavy wood block at its base, to the gnarly metal wok on top, this lamp is an urban glory.

The wok shade is a very dark, dingy piece that is also very personable. It reminds me of Old New York. The city with the dark alleyways, pee-soaked streets, and constant demonstrations. The kind of city that would inspire movies like Escape From New York.








There isn't really much to say for the rod, just that it's an old hollow broomstick that hides the electric wire quite efficiently. The mass at the bottom is repurposed pine wood from our friendly local lumber yard. As with all repurposed things, it is interesting to imagine what the piece has seen in its time on Earth. The exposed rings on its top reveal that the tree it came from was at least 100 years old; I counted 96 clear rings, and it must have had at least a couple more beyond the cut. The tree's health is laid out and its cross-section is its postmortem. Through the tree's health, you can see a century of life in a single point on Earth: the draughts, the floods, the ground nutrients, the rising and dropping temperatures… A tactile history of Earth.


Overlaid onto that century of growth is a clearly long history serving people. Layers of paint, mysterious rusted nail holes on a rounded surface that seems terribly structurally unstable… In my mind's eye, it was part of a porch somewhere in Queens. How many people passed this stump as they walked up their porch steps daily? What history has unfolded here?