M. David Becton Design

Doesn't everyone love M. David Becton's little square tables with all that personality? Here we have an assortment... and David regarding his work, about which he is quite passionate:

"Details in Style" is drawn from a variety of historical and cultural sources which run through our lives. I have been designing and building the furniture that occupied my thoughts and my commissions for many years.

With this new idea I have combined a clean, yet dramatic, feel with the sources of our visual history of stylistic elements. They are the result of a history degree and a life influenced by art and the theater.

The traditional lines and details of each statement are jewels in the cultural and architectural pieces of the human puzzle and evidence of the terrible effect of what six years of higher education and a sheet of imitation parchment can do to innocent scraps of wood.

Each table is designed to dramatize some voice from the past or reinterpret a cultural idea that has struck my imagination with enough force to be knocked out and take on a life of its own. You could think of these tables as a present day "Contemporary furniture beverage with a historical twist," or simply a bit of personality to inspire an otherwise harmless room.

The bases are fabricated from a solid core medium density wood fiber product designed to resist the irregular shrinkage properties of newly cut trees. Whenever possible we use purified, recycled wood fiber. For the tops we use a special veneered board that is the standard for exterior art and signs.

Each exterior seam is reinforced to eliminate finish cracking common to jointery of any kind. Our craftsmen and artists apply a resistant gesso-like surface by hand to create the look and feel of antique stone or plastic with some of the same characteristics of durability.

After the background pigment is applied for hue it is glazed with various nuanced pigment to add depth and personality. The result is a table that, although new, has the feel and personality of an older and wiser table. All in all, each piece has a sense of depth and patina all its own.

A pool in an oriental garden could only hope to feel this serene."

See David's site at: http://www.bectonltd.com
M. David Becton