West Edge Design Fair 2016 - Japanese Tea Hut + Strike/Slip Table with Tokio Lighting
his year at West Edge Design Fair 2016, Taylor Donsker Design partnered with Tokio lighting to collectively showcase the Strike/Slip Table under Tokio's Carbon Light within a Japanese tea ceremony inspired tea hut, designed and built by Taylor Donsker.
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Cast Edge Dining Table no. 2
A lost wax cast bronze edge is seamlessly integrated into the tabletop, forming a continuous transition from the original wood live edge to a bronze edge.
Read MoreEastern Walnut Building Blocks
Hand sawn from massive cubes of solid Eastern Walnut, these constructivist styled and earthquake inspired building blocks are so versatile.
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Strike/Slip - A Coffee Table Inspired by California Earthquakes and Wood Movement
Inspired by strike slip earthquakes and wood movement, the Strike/Slip Coffee Table features a multi layered, "ruptured" surface with two independently supported halves.
Read MoreSuspended Desk Featuring Book Matched Claro Walnut and Corsets!
We customized a Suspended Desk with a blackened steel frame, book matched solid Claro Walnut top, and inlayed polished brass corsets for a Hollywood Hills client.
Read MoreMassive Live Edge Claro Walnut Conference Table
Each of these live edge tables require countless decisions at each step of the process.
Read MoreClaro Walnut Live Edge Suspended Console
We love customizing pieces from our Suspended line, here is a custom Suspended Console Table featuring a live edge Claro Walnut slab top on a blackened steel frame.
This particular slab displays a stunning array of color and figure, a truly exquisite example of California Claro Walnut. We used a black oxide patina to chemically blacken the steel frame, so as to highlight the dark tones in the Claro Walnut top. Photographed at our slab warehouse where it patiently awaited being reborn into a heirloom piece of furniture.
Our Suspended line can be customized in terms of frame finish, wood specie, wood thickness, and wood finish.
Cast Bronze Edge Table - No.1
This piece represents my current and continuing interest with bronze as a material and casting as a process.
Read MoreThe Format Cabinet - A Nod to Donald Judd
Inspired by the disk defragmenting graphic of older Windows computers, the Format Cabinet features a series of evenly spaced, solid California Claro Walnut boxes with recessed, polished copper tops.
Read MoreThe Charro Buffet Cabinet with Charred Claro Walnut and Tons of Figure!
I custom designed this minimalist buffet cabinet as an anchor to our Chicago based client's dining room.
Read MoreBehind the Scenes with Jack Strutz
LA based photographer Jack Strutz dropped by the studio to document a behind the scenes look at our day to day life.
Read MoreLive Edge Graft Coffee Table with Brass Butterfly Key
This table was sold, and will soon leave our workshop, but with these photos we can forever enjoy the beauty of the grain in this live edge Claro Walnut coffee table slab.
Read MoreLive Edge Corset Dining Table Lands in Chicago!
I love it when my clients push me out of my comfort zone!
Read MoreSushi Anyone? Our Organic Cutting Boards in Action!
Studies have shown that cutting on our single board, solid wood cutting boards treated with an organic finish can actually make your food taste better! And, now you can personally select your cutting board in our online store.
Suspended End Table II in Bronze and Birdseye Maple
We rarely venture away from walnut because, well why would you? Unless of course you were equally a fan of Birdseye Maple with tons of figure!
The suspended end table ii features a bronze patina'd steel frame, with extra depth to hold more of your favorite things, or to simply admire the gorgeous birds eye maple solid wood shelves.
Corset Table No.1 - Live Edge California Claro Walnut Dining Table with Glass
Our clients, in Chicago, catapulted us away from our comfort zone by choosing a slab with a significantly decayed live edge. We had total freedom to design a solution that would make the live edge functional. Photos: Sean Miller
Attacked and decayed by fungus, the live edge was left rotten and "punky", a consistency similar to styrafoam. It also created a beautiful canyon like texture that we wanted to maintain and highlight.
We chose to add a recessed, hand cut bronze glass sheet, supported by two brass "corsets" that emerge from within the slab to the decayed live edge.
The space between the glass and decayed live edge became a stunning space of textured reflections.
The brass "corsets" can be inlaid with two different orientations. For those who prefer the corset to have more of a presence, here is the other side.
Film by Yong W. Kim
