The Looky Lou Chopping Block Table with Fluted Base
- Handcrafted to order. Ready in about 8-to-10 weeks
- Reserve your build with a 50% deposit.
- We send a design rendering for your approval before we build.
- White-glove delivery available across the contiguous U.S.
White glove delivery within Los Angeles Count ranges from $150 to $350 for most items under 150 pounds, based upon the distance from our workshop, the size of your piece, and the load-in scenario.
National shipping ranges from $400 to $600 for most items under 150 pounds. National shipping is partial white-glove, meaning the shipper will help arrange the furniture items into your space, but will require assistance from you or another person who is on site.
The Looky Lou is a dining table that gets better the closer you stand to it, which is also where the name comes from. The top is a two-inch-thick solid chopping block, hundreds of walnut or white oak blocks stood on end and glued up into one surface, so what you see and touch is the growth rings themselves. Underneath, our pedestal dining table base is a fluted column standing on a square plinth, finished in the same wood on all four sides.
A chopping block top is the cutting board idea applied to a whole dining table. Standing the blocks on end puts the toughest face of the wood where the plates and elbows land, so it takes daily life in stride and touches up gracefully when it needs to. It also makes a pattern all its own, a brick-laid field of rings and flashes of lighter wood that shifts as you walk around the room and catches the light differently at breakfast than it does at dinner.
The fluted column picks up the rhythm of the top and gives the whole piece a little Deco swagger, one flute at a time, while the wide plinth keeps everything planted. A single pedestal means no legs to negotiate, so chairs pull in from any side and every seat is a good one. It also means the table can go in a corner, against a banquette or in the middle of the room without anyone sitting on a leg.
In black walnut the Looky Lou reads deep and warm, with the end grain pulling out ribbons and triangles of lighter wood between the chocolate. In white oak it goes pale and honeyed and lets the rings do the talking. Both are finished in satin hard-wax oil, which sits in the wood rather than on top of it and leaves the surface feeling like wood.
Standard sizes run from a 48" x 30" that seats four to an 84" x 42" that seats eight with room left for the serving dishes, and every dimension can be modified down to the inch to fit your room. Please see Specifications for greater detail. Each Looky Lou is handcrafted to order in our Los Angeles workshop, with a current lead time of 8 to 10 weeks.
