Recycling full circle.
In a former life, I once worked down at the Melbourne docks in my family’s timber and transport business. Since then the docklands have undergone some serious redevelopment from a busy port to a place where high rise apartments and fine dining restaurants are now the norm.
So when Alumbra, approached me to create some industrial tables for their new refurbishment down at Victoria Dock, it was a chance to revisit a place where it all started for me.
Using recycled hardwoods and raw steel we created a family of outdoor high tables and some smaller coffee tables to compliment them.
The design is unique as the timbers are ‘underslung’ and suspended from the steel perimeter and held in place with a series of bolts creating a picture frame effect when view from above. With industrial castors fitted it completes the look and adds ease of movement when required.
“To be granted the opportunity to handcraft tables for others is a gift. To create tables that live in a reused wharf, where my family bloodline runs deep, in a space where it all started for me; well that’s as unique as it gets.”
In a former life, I once worked down at the Melbourne docks in my family’s timber and transport business. Since then the docklands have undergone some serious redevelopment from a busy port to a place where high rise apartments and fine dining restaurants are now the norm.
So when Alumbra, approached me to create some industrial tables for their new refurbishment down at Victoria Dock, it was a chance to revisit a place where it all started for me.
Using recycled hardwoods and raw steel we created a family of outdoor high tables and some smaller coffee tables to compliment them.
The design is unique as the timbers are ‘underslung’ and suspended from the steel perimeter and held in place with a series of bolts creating a picture frame effect when view from above. With industrial castors fitted it completes the look and adds ease of movement when required.
“To be granted the opportunity to handcraft tables for others is a gift. To create tables that live in a reused wharf, where my family bloodline runs deep, in a space where it all started for me; well that’s as unique as it gets.”