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Adelaida · California

It grew in a walnut orchard. Now it hosts dinner.

This walnut grew in an orchard in the hills of Adelaida, planted decades ago by a veteran who settled on the Central Coast. When the orchard came out in 2021, we milled and kiln-dried the tree ourselves and built this dining table from it.

Orchard walnut dining table on a hand-hammered metal base, in a styled dining room with tall windows over golden hills ORCHARD WALNUT DINING TABLE · STYLED SETTING
Register entry
Wood
Orchard walnut
Where it grew
A walnut orchard in the hills of Adelaida
Came out
2021
Milled and kiln-dried
By us
Became
A dining table, four bookmatched slabs from the same tree, on a hand-hammered metal base
Lives in
A client's home

The life of this tree

From the orchard to the table, in four stops.

When we know a tree's story, it goes on the record: where it grew, what happened to it, and where it lives now. We know more about this one than most.

  1. Stop 1 · Adelaida

    The tree

    A walnut in an orchard in the hills of Adelaida, planted decades ago by a veteran who settled on the Central Coast. That orchard watched Paso go from orchard country to wine country. It came out in 2021, and this tree came to us.

    Map of the hills west of Paso Robles: a dotted route runs from the walnut orchards at Adelaida to our mill in Paso Robles
    From the hills of Adelaida to our mill

  2. Stop 2 · Mill and kiln

    Milled and dried

    We milled the log into slabs and kiln-dried them ourselves before any of it went to the shop. Drying first keeps a top from moving much once it's in a house, though walnut, like any wood, still moves a little with the seasons.

    The four walnut slabs from the orchard tree laid out on the shop floor in two bookmatched pairs, before they were built into the table REAL PHOTO
    THE FOUR SLABS FROM THE TREE

  3. Stop 3 · The shop

    The build

    The top is four bookmatched slabs from the same tree, set side by side in one long, narrow top, square at the ends, with the edge beveled back underneath so the thick top reads thin. Under it, a hand-hammered metal base: a leg at each end leaning out, two crossing in an X under the middle, and a strut from each end to the center. The base is asymmetrical and a little off balance, with a hand-hammered bronze finish, which makes it as much a piece of art as a support.

    Close-up of a hand-hammered metal leg of the orchard walnut table, with the diagonal strut meeting it near the floor STYLED SETTING
    The finished orchard walnut top on sawhorses in our shop, four slabs joined into one long top before the base went on REAL PHOTO

  4. Stop 4 · Home

    Where it lives now

    It's in a client's home now. This is the real table, photographed there in February 2024.

    The real orchard walnut table in the client's home: a long figured walnut top on hammered metal legs, on a wide-plank oak floor
    REAL PHOTO · THE CLIENT'S HOME, FEBRUARY 2024

The grain, up close

Styled settings of the real table

Swirling chocolate and caramel figure around a small natural void at the dark end of the walnut top
A hand running along the beveled end edge of the walnut top
Hands setting a board of bread, cheese and olives on the walnut table at a long dinner

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