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This table is created from wood with a completely unique history. In the late 1990s, the Elm trees in Copenhagen had a disease that made them all have to be removed. In that connection, Rasmus Fenhann was engaged in a project that tried to get some of the Elm trees cut into planks and make furniture of them.

When the large Elm trees in Kongens Nytorv had to be felled, Rasmus managed to get a large burl from one of the trees cut into slices. Rasmus subsequently stored this unique tree in an attic for 10 years. When the wood was dry he could divide the slices and combine them with some straight grown Elm that stood in front of Christiansborg castle and create a hexagonal table.

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Process

The table is assembled with dovetail joints made in white Hawthorn wood, which stood behind the National Museum of Arts in Copenhagen. The black slab in the middle is made of Bornholm Granite stone of the same type that the paving on Kongens Nytorv is made of.

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