Pilon Table.
A six-seat dining table made with complete creative freedom. Jequitibá-rosa in the structure, roxinho in the joints — and legs that leave the straight vertical behind.
A two-line
brief.
At the end of 2024 a rare challenge arrived: to create a dining table with complete creative freedom. The client gave only two directions — that the piece should seat six and include details in an exotic wood, preferably roxinho.
Freedom like that is both a gift and a trap. With no set of references, the piece has to justify itself: every curve, every joint and every centimetre of roxinho needed a structural reason, not a decorative one.
“Six seats, and some detail in exotic wood — preferably roxinho.”
From timber
to workbench.
Selecting the jequitibá-rosa planks for their grain, and the roxinho that would go into the joints.
Each part is planed and squared by hand until it reaches the right thickness and surface for the joint.
Laminating and gluing the tabletop boards at the bench, with the grain planned for how the table will finally read.
Cutting the joints and the wavy roxinho stretcher — each part fitted by hand before assembly.
Two woods,
two roles.
One supports, the other marks. Neither is there for decoration.
Even grain and moderate weight. It gives the table the visual lightness a 1.60 m piece calls for, without giving up the durability a dining table demands.
One of the most intensely coloured Brazilian woods, and dense enough to work as a structural element. With time and light, its tone deepens.
Where the roxinho
does its work.
Seen from below: the roxinho stretcher ties the two bases together and keeps the top stable across the 1.60 m span.
The disc marks the point where the leg meets the structure. It is the head of the joint, left visible instead of hidden.
The cut of the apron echoes the roxinho disc and lightens the weight of the top without hiding the structure.
A table that
asks to be touched.
Organic shapes and modular features make the piece interactive: it reads differently as you walk around it. It is a celebration of the diversity of Brazilian woods — and of what woodworking can do when no one dictates the design.
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