Piece / projectCottonwood, a dark river, and crystal clarity
Natural cottonwood edges frame a dark resin river with exceptional visual clarity and a reflective finished surface.
Furniture & tables • Early project
The early blue-resin table
An early experiment with wood and blue resin, revisited in the archive two years later.
Documented January 2021From the workshop
PART OF A LARGER COLLECTIONThe martini-table collection →
One from the beginning
This is the table I identified as my first wood-and-epoxy table when I revisited it in January 2021. The blue resin surrounds irregular wood sections in a circular top.
Looking back
In that later post, I could already see things I would make differently. It belongs here as part of the work, not just as a polished endpoint.
An early resin-table attempt
This was one of my early attempts at combining wood and blue epoxy in a table. The project came before the later river tables where I had more experience with layout, color, and finishing. I kept it in the portfolio because it shows the start of that learning curve. The work included preparing the wood, arranging the pour area, handling the resin, and bringing the result together as a finished table.
Credits & project notes
Design and making: Michael Pytlowany.
Approximate 2019 build date comes from a January 2021 retrospective caption saying it was made two years earlier.
Sources
Mike's Functional Artistry project archive
03 January 2021
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