Eric Furstenberg

This live edge slab desk is constructed of walnut, cherry and red elm.  All lumber sourced from salvaged trees grown in Lyme NH.  The owner, a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, liked the idea of locally sourced material.

Dimensions: 29h x 24d x 60w

The drawer pull is a copper enshin, a tool used for pediatric acupressure.  The copper inlay on the slab edge began as a way to disguise defects in the edge and the finished pattern forms a symbolic yin-yang.

Crotch figure and cherry butterfly keys inlaid to stabilize central crack.

Copper pins used to secure the mortise and tenon joint meander up the leg, forming another symbolic yin-yang.

Another view.

Another view.