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Prairie Live-Edged Dining Table Set - Table And Bench

$4,300

Stunning Dining Table and Bench set made from a single slab of English Elm on originally-designed bases that are riffs on Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style. The stylized bases are sculptures in themselves - add the gorgeous wood and the set presents as functional art. The set includes a bench designed to pair with the table but with its own styling The Dining Table is 90" long and 36" wide with live-edges playing along both sides. The wood here is a 2" thick slab of English Elm - particularly hardy, temperature tolerant and use-resistant. It can be finished in a number of ways that lend themselves to your preference for depth of color and for type of use. I finish the wood with triple-sanding/triple-coating to an organic smoothness that is a pleasure to look at and to feel, while respecting and retaining its beautiful natural character The bases are made from steel plate with fine, clean lines; the legs are hand-bent into gentle arcs. The subtle circles, triangles and vertical lines that compose the bases are inspired by Prairie motifs. The steel can be finished in a number of ways: raw steel that is clear-coated to effect a more industrial look, metallic paint in a range of colors or powder-coated (most beautiful, most durable, most expensive). The set in these images is painted in Dark Steel How I work with fine wood is to gather your preferences - for species, color-tone, graining - and then do a photoshoot of candidate slabs for you to select from. I obtain these from a specialty lumber barn in the Berkshires, Mass. that carries probably the finest selection of burls and slabs, in a wide variety of species, in the NorthEast I ship via uShip - safer and less expensive than the big carriers - and will obtain the lowest, most preferential rate for you. I've stated shipping at $400 just for illustration

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DINSA MEHTA

DINSA MEHTA

PeppercornStudio

Bedford, NY
Member since: 2014
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I am a sculptor working in metal and glass. Sometimes singly, sometimes together. I find the simple expression of material to be visually pleasing, and often the stuff I have on hand will nudge my creative process. If the resulting piece awakens my visual sense with wonder, that counts as art for me.

I’ve arrived at sculpting after a heady and enjoyable journey through corporate life. I worked my whole career, twenty-seven years, at JPMorgan and all of that on its trading floors. So making art - and the solitude that accompanies it - are a striking counterpoint to the addictive buzz of life in the markets.

The short story reads like this: as an avid gardener I developed an interest to make large-scale metal art to add to the whimsy in my yard. My son, who was (and is) restoring a classic Alfa Romeo taught me how to weld; I followed this with a semester at the Silvermine School of Art. Many moons, more tools, much practise, the steady acquisition of technique (mostly from other artists and artisans) and I had learned much of what goes into my art now.

I like to use recycled steel whenever possible and I scavenge actively to collect old metal - there’s little more satisfying than cutting up and creating art from, say, an old corn planter.
Patina, texture and light fascinate me and play engaging roles in my sculptures.

My wife (an art photographer among her other talents) and I collect the works of (mainly) American craftspeople - glass makers, ceramicists, wood-workers, textile artists, sculptors - and seek out contemporary art, often at Sculpture parks. So making art is its own reward. Sharing it is even better.

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