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11 leg table

A table with so many legs it is hard to count. This is how it became a piece of Garbage Kids:


- "Look at those jonjoli sticks, it's such a nice material, so pale and smooth. It could make a nice table legs, cause they look like actual legs, with knees and everything. "
+ "How many legs should the table have?"
- "Eleven. "
+ "Why eleven?"
- "It's because eleven is hard to count."


September 2020 we (Nika and Ulla) spent a week in West Georgia. With the help of Nika’s relative Bakuri, we headed to the nearby forest to find some small cork oak trees that the Soviets had planted, to bring to our garden in the village. Since the walk was on a steep hill and Ulla is from a very flat country, Bakuri cut a walking stick from the jonjoli bush. Later, when we peeled it, we discovered the beautiful and bright wood hiding underneath the bark. Few days later we returned to prune the bush we found, taking the weaker branches that were not getting enough sunlight.

The legs are crafted from jonjoli (Staphylea colchica), a plant native to Western Georgia, shrubbery with very light coloured wood that over time takes a yellow hew. Very strong and hard to bend, with even the smallest stick nearly impossible to break with a knee. 
Table top from common pine, a softwood that will get scratched and marked with the use of time.
Feet made of chestnut and tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), meant to be attached to the table as additional decoration for special occasions (celebrations and holidays).


Technical information:

The 11 leg table top is made out of pine boards. The legs are made out of jonjoli (Staphylea colchica) a tree-bush native to the Caucasus mointains. The wood was pruned from the bushes close to the Tsaishi village in West Georgia. The feet are carved out of chestnut.

 

This piece is a prototype, as similar piece can be replecated. 

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