Design Secrets: Furniture

“Successful furniture is about connections, and how you bring

materials together,” he says, “and I started to think about how to

translate that structural language of instruments into furniture.

It’s a bit of a structural experiment for furniture.”

The Low Down Table’s apparent simplicity belies a hidden and

unique feature: it can be tuned, much like a musical instrument.

Jenkins points out that with most types of wood, a solid slab

such as he’s used would warp and possibly crack over time and

with changes in the atmosphere. While the Low Down is made

from a solid plank of western or sugar pine, a wood that has a

low moisture content, that helps it r ...