This theme of curved legs is something I love to do. Compare to the Spots-before-your-eyes table. The legs achieve an almost organic, animalian quality, as if the table might get up and gallop away at any moment. There is great difficulty in devising the mortise & tenon joints that join the curved surfaces, especially with this table where front and back are also curved. Each leg is roughed out with power tools, but most of the shape is achieved with a small handplane known as a spokeshave, a tool created hundreds of years ago to make wooden wheel spokes. Choosing to make the drawer a parallelogram to follow the leg profile meant creating an angled drawer slide.
The inlaid beads sit just slightly proud of the surface, the gold "sun" surrounded by spirals of turquoise rays, ending in a perimeter of gold. This table was fun to design and challenging to build.
