Silbrook Table
There is a kind of table that quiets a room simply by refusing to fill it. The Silbrook is built to that end and no other: a clean top sitting flush to its stand, gently tapering round legs, and a single long stretcher drawn the length of the piece, doubled past eight feet where the span calls for it. What holds it together, it shows you — at the top of each leg the tenon passes clean through and leaves its end grain in plain view.
The lightness is a matter of what's been left out. Most dining tables close themselves off under an apron, a solid band skirting the top that reads as bulk and boxes in the legs. The Silbrook has none. In its place the stretcher runs the length between the two sets of legs, bracing it end to end while leaving the space beneath the top open — the eye passes straight under and through. The round legs taper as they fall, thinning the piece toward the floor, and the frame keeps an even, unhurried rhythm from one end to the other.
The top is finished with breadboard ends, which do the plain work of keeping the boards flat across the years and the seasons. Each one carries a single quiet detail — a stadium-shaped channel eased into the end — the sort of thing you find with a fingertip before you notice it with the eye.
Set your chairs around it and it will seat the family and everyone they bring to dinner. It is made in the full range of twenty-six woods, from bleached white oak to ebonized walnut, in lengths to a hundred and twenty inches and to depths cut to the room. This design is also available as the Silbrook console.
Dimensions
Dining Table
60” W x 26” D x 30” H
72” W x 30” D x 30” H
96” W x 30” D x 30” H
96” W x 36” D x 30” H
102” W x 48” D x 30” H
120” W x 48” D x 30” H
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Materials
Wood: 26 woods from light to dark and several specialty finishes
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