Rye Dining Table
- Vedel & Sønner
- Ida Krøyer
- Furniture
- 2025
The table is an exercise in using one component. Top boards, aprons and legs are all cut from the same 40 mm stock, which means the workshop mills a single thickness and the finished object has a consistency of line that no amount of detailing could otherwise buy.
The joint does the rest. Each leg passes through the apron and is wedged from above with a contrasting oak key, so the fixing is visible on the upper surface as a small dark rectangle at each corner. Nothing is glued permanently. A single mallet takes the table apart into five pieces that fit through a standard doorway, which for a solid oak table at 240 cm is not a small consideration.
The top is five boards, book-matched from one board across its width so the figure runs continuously. The end grain is left exposed and finished flush. There is no breadboard end and no edge profile — the arris is broken by hand and nothing more, so the table's silhouette from the side is a single unbroken line.
Finish is a hard-wax oil, three coats, and the table is expected to be re-oiled by whoever owns it rather than returned to a workshop. Water rings will appear. The oak will go from pale straw to a deep honey over roughly five years and then stop changing.
Rye is made in three lengths and in a version with the same construction in ash.