Modern vernacular

The milk table began with a dairy stool.

The form is centuries old – three splayed legs, a simple top, a design that finds its own level on an uneven floor.

The other starting point was the timber. Britain was once almost entirely forested. It's now one of the world's largest importers of wood, and yet we have a culture long recognised for its mastery of the material. The milk table is our small response to that contradiction – a way of sharing rare, thick sections of native elm, chestnut and sycamore, and presenting them in a way that does justice to their character and significance.

We've loved watching these move from inspiration to sketch, to bench, and from the bench onto the pages of magazines. Better still to know they're now in people's halls and sitting rooms, hard at work in a modern world, holding up drinks and books and lamps.