Burl&Beam

Collection

Tables

The pieces a household gathers around, and the ones it eventually argues over. Editions are capped at one hundred; most run considerably shorter.

The Titanic Side Table seen from above and to one side: maple burl top, blue-gray resin channel, white resin form, brass drawer pull, and cast piston legs.

Edition of 100 · Reservations open

The Titanic
Side Table

Most furniture that references history is decorated with it. This one is made of it.

In 1994, coal was recovered from the bunkers of RMS Titanic under the authority of the court-appointed salvor. It is the one part of the wreck that has been lawfully raised and released, and it has been sold and documented ever since.

A quantity of that coal is milled to powder and blended into the resin poured through this table. It gives the blue-gray channel its depth and its faint suspended grain — and it means the ocean running through your side table spent seventy-three years in a boiler bunker and another eighty-two on the floor of the North Atlantic.

Every table ships with the salvage documentation for the coal used in its own pour, alongside its edition number and the signed record of its build.

Macro view of the seam where maple burl meets the blue-gray resin channel, perfectly flush.
The pour, flush to the burl
A craggy dot of opaque white resin with faceted edges set into the deep blue-gray channel.
The white form, at the leading edge
Detail of the cast, brass-tinted legs sculpted as opposing engine pistons with rods, crossheads and collars.
Legs, cast as opposing pistons

The plate

The part nobody sees.

Set flush into the back apron, behind the drawer, is a brass plate. It carries the edition number, the year, and one line describing what the resin is pigmented with.

It faces the wall. You will look at it twice: once when it arrives, and once when you explain the table to someone who does not believe you.

A brass plate inlaid flush into the back apron of the table, surrounded by figured wood with no visible fasteners.

Specification

The Titanic Side Table

Edition
100 — numbered, signed, and recorded. When they are gone the mold and the pattern are retired.
Top
Book-matched maple burl, stabilized and filled throughout, finished to a hand-rubbed satin.
Channel
Blue-gray epoxy poured as a single continuous body, pigmented with coal salvaged from the RMS Titanic engine-room bunkers.
Inclusion
One opaque white resin form, hand-shaped, set at the leading edge of the channel. No two are alike.
Drawer
One, on a concealed runner, with a turned brass pull. The only hardware visible on the piece.
Legs
Cast aluminum with a brass tint, sculpted as opposing engine-room pistons and finished by hand.
Plate
Engraved brass, inlaid flush into the back apron.
Fasteners
None visible, anywhere on the piece.
Documentation
Edition certificate, build record, and the salvage documentation for the coal used in that table’s pour.
Dimensions & price
Confirmed with each reservation as it comes up. Pieces in this collection begin at $10,000.

Reservations

Reserve a place in the edition

Places are offered in the order names were added. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing — it decides where you stand when the next table is ready.

Joining the list places no obligation on you and costs nothing. It reserves your position in the order pieces are offered. We write only when there is something to say about this edition.

Also in this collection

Dining and occasional tables

Larger work is built to commission rather than to an edition: dining tables, consoles and desks in walnut, white oak and figured maple, with resin where the wood asks for it and sculptural cast bases where it does not.

A commission starts with the boards. We find the material first, agree the piece it wants to become, and build to that. Expect several months.

Discuss a commission

A wide live-edge walnut dining table joined by a dark resin river, on a sculptural brass-toned trestle base.

Commissions

Have something made.

Larger work is built to order rather than to an edition. Tell us the room, the size, and the wood you have in mind — or bring us a board and we will tell you what it wants to become.

We read every one and reply in person. Commissions are taken a few at a time, so an early note is worth more than a detailed one — we can work the detail out together.