THE ARABICA
COFFEE TABLE
After years of refining the design, material selection and build process, the table has evolved quite simply into the finest quality oak beam coffee table built anywhere in the world.
We’ll hand-build your own awesome natural sculpture of a table to the perfect size, shape, style and finish to exhibit in your home.
SOME OF OUR RECENT ARABICA PROJECTS
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AN OAK BEAM COFFEE TABLE OF THE FINEST QUALITY
Every part of our design and build process has one single purpose – to ensure each table ages like a fine wine. When you choose an oak beam table, you’re choosing huge pieces of beautifully sculpted natural material to live in your home and, like all natural materials, these huge oak beams have their own unique ways of adapting to their surroundings as they age.
It’s important to us that you understand what to expect from these living, breathing and striking pieces of natural furniture so that you and your family can enjoy your table for many many years, so here are the unique features that make our premium quality oak beam tables stay strong, solid and looking beautifully natural for life…
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OUR MATERIAL SELECTION
This timber grading guarantees a minimal number of flaws in the oak, which are characteristics that can cause faults and problems in the beams as they dry, such as excessive twisting and instability.
Timbers that don’t make the grade in France are not fit for making into furniture, and are known as Garden Grade sleepers, which is only one grade above firewood. These are the sleepers that are sold in garden centres and made into the cheap disposable oak beam furniture you will find online.
Over the first couple of years making tables we learned the hard way that to make oak beam tables that last, providing a lifetime of value to their owners, only the premium grade of oak sleeper will do.
PREPARING OUR BEAMS
The first stage of the process is to pre-season the oak, which allows the beams to adapt to the warm, dry, indoor conditions they will be living in as furniture. When you order your table, we cut the beams to size and season every piece of the table for a minimum of 4 weeks in a drying kiln, specially set up for oak beams.
The majority of changes in a beam’s shape and appearance will take place during pre-seasoning, after which we then plane the pre-seasoned beams to perfectly square and they are ready to be made into your table.
OUR REFINED BUILD PROCESS
This is the settling period. During this 12 month settling period the oak in your table will develop a it’s own unique character as it acclimatises to your home, whilst maintaining all of its huge inherent strength and stunning natural appearance. New cracks may open and new features will appear in the beams as the surfaces move and settle.
We’ve learned over the years that the key to making an oak beam table that will last forever, is to design the table specifically to allow unrestricted natural movement during the settling period, so we’ve engineered a unique joint system especially designed to allow this to happen.
UNIQUE OAK BEAM
JOINT DESIGN
The unique free-moving joint and adjustable beam supports guarantee that you can keep a beam rock solid no matter what degree of movement occurs as it settles in the settling period.
CUSTOMISING YOUR ARABICA
You can tailor many aspects of your Arabica to perfectly suit your home
CHOOSE YOUR
TABLE STYLE
Or you can choose our Classic style Arabica, where the table top subtly overhangs the table legs in a fit with a more traditionally-designed oak furniture.
CHOOSE YOUR HEIGHT
We wanted to design a versatile coffee table that could be used conventionally or as a focal point of social gatherings, so for that reason you can choose your Arabica coffee table to be built at the standard height, or at a special lower height for floor-cushion seating.
CHOOSE YOUR
SIZE & SHAPE
So we custom build every table to order, which means you can choose the exact size you want, up to 2.5m long and up to 1.5m (or 7 beams) wide, making it the exact fit for your space and your needs.
CHOOSE YOUR FINISH
Our protective finish comes in a range of 4 natural colour tones, in an extremely durable and user-friendly finishing oil that can be quickly refreshed once every 12 months to keep a table looking like new.
ARABICA OAK BEAM COFFEE TABLE PROJECTS
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