Looking for coffee tables
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Looking for coffee tables
I'm looking for a wood or metal coffee table to make a glass top for for my own home.
Has anyone found a source for these?
Geri
Has anyone found a source for these?
Geri
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Try Aftosa:
http://store.yahoo.com/aftosa-test/index.html
I've seen some tables in their catalog. Haven't actually seen one in person.
Larry
http://store.yahoo.com/aftosa-test/index.html
I've seen some tables in their catalog. Haven't actually seen one in person.
Larry
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Geri,
I'm quite fond of Eurway although I haven't made any table tops yet they do have some cool bases. http://www.eurway.com/subcategories.las ... id=6128977
If you check out the link for Table Bases in the subcategory listing you maybe will find something for your project. Also a lot of their complete tables have glass tops so you could just replace it with your own design.
I have a couple of these end tables http://www.eurway.com/item_display.lass ... at=97&s=23 and one day when I get a big girl kiln I will make some fabulous new glass for them.
Susan
I'm quite fond of Eurway although I haven't made any table tops yet they do have some cool bases. http://www.eurway.com/subcategories.las ... id=6128977
If you check out the link for Table Bases in the subcategory listing you maybe will find something for your project. Also a lot of their complete tables have glass tops so you could just replace it with your own design.
I have a couple of these end tables http://www.eurway.com/item_display.lass ... at=97&s=23 and one day when I get a big girl kiln I will make some fabulous new glass for them.
Susan
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Thanks for the link, Larry. I bought some of their metal console tables about 5 years ago with the intent of making tops for them and selling them; I wasn't impressed with the quality so I didn't want to sell them. However, I did make tops for them and they live in my home to this day. I don't believe they carry the ones I bought anymore.Larry Lunsford wrote:Try Aftosa:
http://store.yahoo.com/aftosa-test/index.html
I've seen some tables in their catalog. Haven't actually seen one in person.
Larry
I recently got their catalog and they have some others now with wooden tops (you're supposed to make tiles to insert in them) and metal bases, for anyone who's looking for that style of table.
Geri
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These are certainly interesting! Some of them would be really cool to make tops for. But ... I left out one important piece of information...Don't laugh too hard. the room I want to make the table for is decorated with a circa 1850 sofa and reproductions of ancient Egyptian art, including two life-size (6'3") mummy cases that store CD's and DVD's. I suspect I'm on a wild goose chase here hunting for a base for a glass piece that isn't too contemporary looking.Susan Moore wrote:Geri,
I'm quite fond of Eurway although I haven't made any table tops yet they do have some cool bases. http://www.eurway.com/subcategories.las ... id=6128977
If you check out the link for Table Bases in the subcategory listing you maybe will find something for your project. Also a lot of their complete tables have glass tops so you could just replace it with your own design.
I have a couple of these end tables http://www.eurway.com/item_display.lass ... at=97&s=23 and one day when I get a big girl kiln I will make some fabulous new glass for them.
Susan
But this did give me another idea...maybe I should use my long-neglected stone carving skills/tools and carve a base out of alabaster or cast a bronze base. That's a thought, if I can't find something else. Keep the ideas coming...if they won't work for me, they might work for someone else!
Thanks!
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I have various furniture makers on my collaboration list, metal and woodworkers. You can probably find somebody out there in Sunny Silicon Valley to work with. You could have somebody make a basic wooden base and apply a bas relief sculpture made of whatever material to it.
There is always that famous designer Pierre Oney Known better in The USA as Pier One.
The carved alabaster or bronze idea is fabulous, but in the mean time, do something simple.
I have various furniture makers on my collaboration list, metal and woodworkers. You can probably find somebody out there in Sunny Silicon Valley to work with. You could have somebody make a basic wooden base and apply a bas relief sculpture made of whatever material to it.
There is always that famous designer Pierre Oney Known better in The USA as Pier One.
The carved alabaster or bronze idea is fabulous, but in the mean time, do something simple.
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