Woodworker: Todd Plummer

This innovative coffee table won an Excellence in Design award from Woodcraft Magazine at the 2007 Design in Wood exhibition organized by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association. It features a canvas-backed tambour that slides around the entire circumference of the piece. Sliding the tambour reveals compartments at the ends of the table and a central through-drawer. Plummer was inspired by tambours while studying Scandinavian design at Capellagården in Sweden. The top is big-leaf maple veneer over quartersawn poplar staves. The rest of the table is solid curly maple. The finish is shellac.

Photo by Andrew E. Patterson and courtesy of SDFWA