Found in Carpentras, this 19th-century French farm table was built from a single thick slab of solid walnut, the kind of board that came from one tree and one cut and is almost impossible to find now. The walnut has darkened to the deep tone that only old French walnut reaches, with the grain still visible across the whole surface. The base is built on four heavy turned legs joined by a low H-stretcher, made for a table that held real weight: roasts, decanters, the elbows of everyone at dinner. The joinery is mortise-and-tenon and the wood has shifted with the seasons for nearly two centuries without coming apart. Sylvie places it in a kitchen with a single bowl in the middle and the chairs pulled out, because anything more would be in its way.
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