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Hand made solid hardwood oval vintner's or wine tasting tables in custom sizes with antique finishes

  • Writer: Suzanne Bonham
    Suzanne Bonham
  • Oct 22
  • 3 min read

Updated: Nov 10

Kemble Interiors design with our wine table #913 against an upholstered built-in bench.
Kemble Interiors design with our wine table #913 against an upholstered built-in bench.

#828 - a typical small vintner's table seating 4 comfortably and squeezing 6.  It is 40 x 72 x 30h.
#828 - a typical small vintner's table seating 4 comfortably and squeezing 6. It is 40 x 72 x 30h.
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#828 - these are always finished to a physical sample that we would send you to look at in your own home and under your own lighting.
#828 - these are always finished to a physical sample that we would send you to look at in your own home and under your own lighting.
#828 with its finish sample.
#828 with its finish sample.

Here's the first such table we built. It was made for a local couple to use in their everything room. It was to sit against an upholstered bench on the wall. Their children were grown, and they spent evenings and some mornings together on the bench. One was left handed, and one was right. This allowed them to sit side by side and hold hands during dinner or TV time.

#635 wine table 48 x 76 x 30h.  We build custom sizes
#635 wine table 48 x 76 x 30h. We build custom sizes

A smaller table built of solid cherry. At 30 x 60 this will seat 4.

950 side view of a handmade oval wine tasting table with antique walnut colored finish showing lower stretcher and mortise-and-tenon joints
950 - 30 x 60 oval vintner's or wine table in solid cherry built in Portland, Oregon. Custom sizes available

Side view, showing sturdy uprights, arms, and base stretcher with a true mortise-and-tenon joint, expertly crafted with a wooden peg running through a square hole in the tenon. They are easily taken apart, and exceptionally stable and sturdy when assembled.

950 side view of a handmade oval wine tasting table with antique walnut colored finish showing lower stretcher and mortise-and-tenon joints

This was made for a family with an antique home who needed a small breakfast / homework space in the kitchen.

950 Custom handmade solid cherry wine tasting table made in America

Cherry has a lot of natural red in it, but doesn't have to be obnoxious. We use wood bleach to neutralize the red tones without ruining the character.

950 end view of a handmade oval wine tasting table from Inventia Design

"plan view" looking straight down at the top. True elliptical shape harmonizes with the shapes of the base feet and harp. Cherry's chatoyance or tiger-eye effect can be seen here, and is more prominent and lovely in real life. In addition, cherry offers the advantage of wide board availability and good looking, tight knots. This 30 x 60 table is made from only three boards of random widths, meaning that each board was greater than 10 inches wide before being joined together. Wide boards are important for the faux-antique look we are usually going for.


950 looking straight down on the elliptical (oval) top of a small table built by Inventia Design
950 looking straight down at the elliptical (oval) top, 30 x 60 in this case.

A perfectly crafted mortise and tenon joint with wooden through-peg. A gentle tap is all that's necessary to make a firm connection.

950 mortise and tenon joint with wooden through-peg on a custom built solid cherry wine table by Inventia Design.
950 mortise and tenon joint with wooden through-peg and square hole, easily taken apart for moving.

Yet another take on the theme - these are only 18 x 33 x 30h and could easily be tucked under the arm for a spontaneous glass of wine outdoors to admire a fall sunset!

#850 pair of small custom made campaign tables with antique finish and oval tilting tops
#850 pair of small campaign tables with tilting tops

The tilting tops are done with a round dowel pin which you can see here, and it rotates gently and is pegged in place with a brass rod.

#850 small custom made campaign table showing dowel pin for tilting top
#850 campaign table with tilting elliptical top

This was modeled after antique campaign tables. The sort where you would smoke cigars and drink your cognac from the battle front.

#850 elliptical wine table with tilting top and antique finish
#850 elliptical wine table with tilting top and antique finish

It is solid alder and wears a warm natural antique finish with lots of "worm damage". A moderately-ornate square peg disguises a steel screw which rotates the harp.

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Top showing some "cigar burns", evidence of "knife fights", "ink spots", "worm holes", puddles of spilled "cognac" and other evidence of battlefield "history", all gently faded, worn in and partially rubbed off.

#850 small custom made campaign table with antique finish and oval tilting top
#850 campaign table with oval tilting top


 
 
 
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