The Windward Collection: A Dialogue Between Craft and Coast

A dining table. Six chairs. A room organized around return.

The collection’s coastal register is carried through restraint rather than motif. It consists of a restored dining table and six antique chairs shaped by repetition rather than display. They read as an ensemble not because they match, but because they have remained together.

The chairs were acquired from a long-held estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Their history is legible through use rather than record. They framed daily meals and ordinary conversation, moved and returned without ceremony. Four chairs share matching lyre-inspired splats; two vary slightly. The difference was retained. Uniformity was not imposed. Turned legs and carved elements remain intact. Restoration addressed structure and surface without erasing age. Upholstery registers environment rather than theme. Blue appears as condition rather than signal, held in depth and restraint. The fabric keeps presence inward. Restoration restores the object’s capacity for use.

The table anchors the collection through proportion and stillness. Crafted from solid wood, its surface is generously scaled and uninterrupted. The finish carries mineral and sand tones drawn from the coastal bluffs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where stone and light coexist without emphasis. A beveled edge moderates the perimeter. Geometry remains clear. The table holds its form without ornament.

Tables that extend were not conceived as conveniences, but as accommodations. Their purpose was to receive more without altering form. The Windward Table continues this lineage through three precisely fitted leaves. When extended, proportion is preserved. The silhouette remains intact. The table does not change character. It accepts more.

Tapered legs, restrained joinery, and symmetry allow the table to move between interiors without adaptation. It neither requires nor resists a coastal setting. Paired with the chairs, the collection reads as a single structure. Seating and surface held in equilibrium.

The table is set.
The room holds.