Each table is made from sipo, a cousin of mahogany, and each has the same custom steel base, with this one simply a scaled-down version. Now, you may see something similar in the furniture that’s available from commercial retailers. In their catalogues, you’ll find dining tables and consoles and coffee tables with the same essential design, just resized and tweaked slightly. Because everything that we make here at Cannon Hill is a completely bespoke, one-off there’s something quite different at play here.

The table base you see on this piece was designed originally in a collaboration between us and our clients, and handmade by Cannon Hill’s steel fabricator. There’s no commercial vendor around who can allow you to create your very own table base, in the way you envision it, with the only limits being the ones placed on us by physics and Mother Nature. That’s the custom advantage, and it’s why we’re so proud of our work. We build things that are the complete inventions of the design process, and we start fresh every time.

Perhaps more than the base, though, it’s the material in the table top that most distinctly ties this table together with its older brother in the dining room. Sipo is a consistently stunning material, one that never fails to catch the eye. There is a difference between this pair and most of the dining-and-coffee table sets that we make: these are of milled boards. Often, when we make a set like this one, we do it from a single slab. 

In those cases, our clients have selected a slab for their live edge dining table that is longer than necessary, either with the stated intention of turning it into two tables or simply because they fell in love with the look of it. In these latter cases, getting the opportunity to turn the off-cut, the section that isn’t to be in the dining table, into its own custom furniture is a real treat. After all, this is beautiful material and we always want to make use of every bit of it.