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Designing a “Cool” Conference Room Table – Video
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Designing a “Cool” Conference Room Table
I was asked by a customer to create a cool conference room table for his construction company. He may have said “super cool” or “coolest ever”, but that’s a pretty high bar, so let’s just stick with cool. Either way, it was a challenge that I gladly accepted. Now, I don’t want everything I work on to be a challenge, but I do like to be reminded that I am alive and have something to contribute every now and then, so I said yes. I especially liked this challenge because I got to do some design work with no real limits for a great customer who I have known for a long time, and I knew it would go swimmingly.
I started off with a bunch of sketches (way more than I show in the video link below), many spread out over several days, so I could let the ideas ruminate. I drew a few of my favorites in SketchUp for presentation to the customer, and he picked out two of them – one for the conference room table and one for their “war room”, where they hammer out bids. The war room table was drawn originally at 14′ long, but was resized to better fit the smaller, more intimate room.
The war room table during delivery and setiup.
A good view of the heavy legs between the chairs.
The war room table fully set up with chairs.
The design he chose for the conference room table features two arches leaning in towards each other and appearing to go through the top. I knew it was going to be a demanding build, so I took the time to make a mock-up for the customer. I don’t normally do this, but I thought it would give me a chance to really think about the construction and it would give the customer his last and final chance to raise concerns before we started throwing time and money at the project.
The model building was quite fun, and very helpful. It allowed both of us to see what the final table will look like with the actual wood and stain color. Plus, it was just fun to have a little model of a table to show off, so much so, that both of us were hoping to keep the model after it was completed (I let him keep it).
Click on the thumbnail photo below to see a video of the table design process and the model build.
Open House Celebrates 25 Years of WunderWoods Custom Hardwoods
On Saturday, October 18th from 8am-2pm we open our doors to celebrate 25 fantastic years of custom woodworking, live-edge slabs, hardwood lumber and great customers. Join us for a hot dog and a Coke and a chance to win a walnut slab valued at over $500 (just for showing up). We will also have fun games with great prizes and demonstrations of crowd favorites like the sawmill and cnc router. We hope to see you there.
