Clayton Oxford

Lady Ox Ponders: How can Furniture Learn from the Foodie?

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Last night I couldn't sleep. Per usual?

Usual - usually means worrying about money, dreading my cog-in-the-BROKEN-machine day job, hating I am not creating art, wondering how my peers from grad school are making this all work, dirty dishes, new tires, death and taxes.

NO! This time is wasn't per usual brain-babble. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't sit still, because I was going to do it - quit my job and work full-time for the company that Clayton and I have been slaving for and dreaming of for the last 5 years of our lives.

When I can't sleep, I read my fancy-smart-phone...stocks, news, facebook, twitter. I read an article about the previous post - underground food markets. [See earlier post for article]

I read about an underground market in San Francisco, my heart away from Durham, where locavores get together and feast on the most innovative culinary arts there are presently. Local chefs and foodies skirt the red-tape of food laws by creating a private club, to which membership is free, to allow for innovation with out the parameters of BIG FOOD corporations. Vendors come with their chocolate-dipped prosciutto and snow made from frozen milk steeped with chilis. People growing produce on roof top gardens and cooking in their tiny city apartments. Allowing the people to have the control of what they eat and bringing passion back to consumption.

Can this happen with furniture? Clayton Oxford is doing it!

One thing that always happens when I meet a freshly graduated furniture design student or recently matriculated artist from the academy, the idealism is burning in their declarations about "the handmade" and "their process" and artistry and blah, blah, blah. Don't get me wrong. All of that is essential to being and artist. Identity. Vision. Work ethic. Commitment.

That isn't what bothers me. What they don't acknowledge in their pursuits is that their is a 200 year old industry born in High Point, NC of furniture. This is the dialogue that they are entering regardless if they are making furniture in their garage or in a factory in China. The moment you want to enter the market to sell your designs, whether you like it or not, you are part of it.

The Furniture Industrial Complex

There was the artisan. There was the assembly line. When a wood cabinet was made of wood that was crafted and pieced together. Then came the marketing. Then came the demand. Then came the need for quantity. With quantity came lack of quality. NUFF SAID. (I can elaborate more later)

SO what is Clayton Oxford doing that reflects the idea of the underground of food market? Getting materials - where ever he can locally - bamboo from the forest, barn wood from an abandoned residence in the country, metal scraps, etc. The difference is in the production.

In their 55,000 square foot warehouse in Durham, NC, Clayton Oxford's production creates quality furniture that can be made in relatively large quantities - this is the key. Clayton designs with the crucial premise that beauty and quality needs to be able to sell to a larger market in order to compete with the existing furniture industrial complex.

Food Raves, or Street Meat Gussied Up For Hipsters, Is A Thing Now

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:22:00 +0000

First it was organic, then it was local. Then came the farmer’s markets and the cultural cool that comes with cooking. Soon, the food trucks rolled into towns and all of a sudden, the simple act of eating became swallowed up by the same hegemony usually reserved for rock clubs and tattoo parlors.

So it seems that because the mainstream has continually embraced the cool things in the food industry, the cool kids have resorted to starting underground food raves. Yup, it’s come to this. The underground food raves are essentially hush-hush late-night food markets, the kind of things one would normally only see when Anthony Bourdain traipses through the late-night food markets of Southeast Asia.

The underground market seeks to encourage food entrepreneurship by helping young vendors avoid roughly $1,000 a year in fees — including those for health permits and liability insurance — required by legitimate farmers markets. Here, where the food rave — call it a crave — was born, the market organizers sidestep city health inspections by operating as a private club, requiring that participants become “members” (free) and sign a disclaimer noting that food might not be prepared in a space that has been inspected.

Members of the gathering have few qualms about the sampling. “I want something savory and awesome,” said David McDonald, who works with Ms. Corpuz and estimates that he spends 40 percent of his income on dinners. “I want food that will put me in a coma before I go to sleep.”

Fueled by Twitter and Facebook, the phenomenon, which began in San Francisco, has now spread to other parts of the country, including Atlanta and Washington.

“When I was their age I was doing drugs and going to rock shows,” Novella Carpenter, an urban farmer and author, told the New York Times. She recently got into a spat with the City of Oakland for selling chard and other produce at a pop-up farm stand without a permit. “That’s not their culture. Their culture is food — incredible yummy-tasting food.”

All of this would be easier to stomach (har har) if these underground food markets were less about DIY cultural capital for foodies and more honest about their intentions, which essentially amounts to not wanting to pay the rising costs associated with traditional farmer’s markets.

“The small-batch economics just don’t work,” said Iso Rabins, 30, who started the San Francisco food rave back in 2009, according to the New York Times. He cites the costs for renting commercial kitchen space ($45 to $75 an hour), as well as the farmer’s market fees — business and product liability insurance (around $250), space rental ($40 to $55 a day), yearly member fees (around $110), and a health and safety permit (about $500) – as his reasons for starting this movement.

The goal is to be an incubator for culinary start-ups, and be a profit-making venture. Vendors pay $50 to reserve a cooking space and return 10 percent of sales over $500 to ForageSF. “The feeling in the food community is that if you’re making money, it’s not something you’re passionate about,” Mr. Rabins said. “But if we actually want to change anything — dedicate our lives to it — we need to make money doing it,” he said.

Amateur cooks around the country are pushing to have the right to sell unlicensed goods directly to consumers. So-called “cottage food” laws that allow products considered nonhazardous, like pies and cookies, exist in 18 states, with five more considering similar legislation.

It’s hard not to escape the feeling that yes, this is cool. It’s incredibly cool. It’s amateur chefs doing what they love to do in a way that’s on their own terms — even if it’s late at night when most people are asleep.

When you watch Anthony Bourdain snake his way through an over-crowded tent city of food, it’s hard not to feel like we’re missing out on that in America. The scents, the smells, the excitement, the pleasure of discovery! But it’s also hard not to get upset at the branding of this new American movement — street meat gussied up for hipster foodies — as something “underground” or “cool,” when it’s really just capitalist in nature, even if the participants refuse to acknowledge that.

[Article reposted from: http://hypervocal.com/culture/2011/food-raves-or-street-meat-gussied-up-for-hipsters-is-a-thing-now/]

High Point Spring Market

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:30:00 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: April 1, 2011

Clayton Oxford Designs, a premier manufacturer and designer of sustainable home furnishings, introduces the Spring 2011 Natural Slice Collection at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. This collection features live-edge slab tables and desks saddled on hand-melded, custom-designed metal bases. One-of-kind cocktail, console and end tables materialize from the inventive construction of reclaimed materials like acacia, mahogany and teak. Each piece is designed by nature and crafted by hand, highlighting the distinctive organic styles and natural elements in the wood grains, knots and holes from the natural root.

With the convenience of a new 19,000-square-foot warehouse in downtown Durham, NC, Clayton Oxford Designs is bringing it all back home. Forging new relationships with local suppliers and artisans, they have increased production in North Carolina while significantly decreasing lead times, even on custom pieces.

“We’re increasing our control over the process by owning the production here in North Carolina,” says Clayton Oxford, the designer and founder. “We can make the most fantastic furniture in the world with materials right here in North Carolina in two weeks from start to finish.”

Lauren Reynolds joined our team in February 2011 as our new Director of Operations & Sales. She has breathed a fresh air of professionalism and organization into a small company of artists. With her extensive experience in event management and accounting, which she honed at New York's Bowery Presents, Lauren has built an infrastructure upon which the business can grow. Her creativity and outsider-mentality breed innovation in the furniture industry.

Clayton Oxford Designs get New Director of Operations & Sales - Lauren Reynolds

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:07:00 +0000

Lauren Reynolds joined our team in February 2011 and breathed a fresh air of professionalism and organization into a small company of artists.

With her extensive experience in event management and accounting, which she honed at New York's Bowery Presents, Lauren has built an infrastructure upon which the business can grow. Her creativity and outsider-mentality breed innovation in the furniture industry.

Lauren Reynolds is from Lewisville, NC. A graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Creative Writing, Lauren's interests have led her to study screenwriting in Paris, to ski in Colorado, to surf in Nicaragua, and to follow music all over the United States.

She has spent the last three years living in New York's East Village and recently returned to her home state, North Carolina, to the town of Durham (http://www.bullcityrising.com/). She is truly music-obsessed and beautiful. Be careful! Her charm is infectious.

A warm-welcome to Lauren Reynolds, our new Director of Operations & Sales.

Meet Lauren at High Point Furniture Market (http://www.highpointmarket.org/) at our booth in Showplace (http://www.showplace-highpoint.com/) on the first floor to the right!

HIGH POINT FURNITURE MARKET, "Welcome to My Backyard"

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:45:00 +0000

Welcome to the Dirty South! Yes, 200 hundred years in the business and the ever-changing world of furniture weathers the storm of "when things went South"...well, let's make lemonade out of lemons and say "when the Industry came to the South!" ...HIGH POINT FURNITURE MARKET!!!

Hight Point Furniture Market is a market that designers can - every take a deep breath and marinate on this - AFFORD! A boot-strapping young business can pull up their lil' pick up to the dock and make it happen. New design, new faces...fresh.

Thank you High Point!

Come see Clayton Oxford Designs in the Salon in Suites at Market Square, G-7008!

JUST COOL DESKS - Marc Fish and Clayton Oxford

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:53:00 +0000

Posted by Dave on March 25th, 2010

British furniture designer/maker Marc Fish has sent us Le Orchidee Desk he has created for the Millinery Works 21st Century Furniture exhibition in London, where nearly 100 pieces of furniture from UK designer/makers will be on display for the month of April.

Now check out Clayton Oxford's Modern Acacia Wood Desk:

Modern Acacia Wood Dining Table
ITEM #: CO09-055

DESCRIPTION: Natural Sliced Acacia Wood Slab, mounted atop steel legs forms this organic formed Modern Dining Table / Desk.

Available in different sizes and forms, each modern teak wood table has individual characteristics, and natural style.

Each Sustainable Acacia Wood Accent Design is unique given the high quality natural materials used.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for similar product references.

Custom designs, and sizes also available.

MEASUREMENTS:
SMALL - 41"w x 35.5"d x 29.5"h
MEDIUM - 63"w x 41"d x 29.5"h
LARGE - 75"w x 35.5"d x 29.5"

Milan Preview: ‘RR chair’ by For Use / Numen (AT) and Clayton Oxford's Acacia Wood and Iron Chair

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:33:00 +0000

Posted by Nora Schmidt

'RR chair' by For Use / Numen

The Vienna based design studio For Use / Numen will present the ‘RR chair’ one of their newest projects during this year’s Milan Design Week.

'RR chair' by For Use / Numen

Here is what the designers explain:

“Three variations are based on Richard Riemerschmid’s ‘Musikstuhl’ from year 1899. Beside the fact that the chair is an icon of German Jugendstil, it’s construction with bold diagonal bar presents an almost perfect solution for the basic static problem of a chair. This characteristic was taken as a concept for constructional and formal exploration. Seemingly identical, each of variations has a specific form derived from the starting dominant diagonal. The final derivation is a tripod chair of a typographical level of graphic definition.”

'RR chair' by For Use / Numen

Clayton Oxford's Acacia Wood and Iron Chair is a Green Design that follows the same streamline principles as the 'RR chair.'

Made with the wood of the fast growing and short-lived Acacia tree, this chair is made through sustainable means with durable materials that will last.

‘Troag’ light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini and Clayton Oxford Contemporary Rectangular Island Ceiling Light

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:48:00 +0000

Posted by Simon Cowell

'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini

Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a new pendant light for Foscarini, which will be launched during next week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan. The decidedly linear piece takes a formal cue from the traditional ‘troag’, a canoe-shaped wooden bowl used in Lapland, which the designer encountered on a visit to the region.

'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini

Available in varying lengths, the lamp is fabricated from a single piece of wood. Light is diffused both downwards and upwards, the latter thanks to a slit that runs long the top of the shade. Given its linearity, ‘Troag’ is particularly suited for illuminating long tables or large open spaces.

'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini

A Green-Take on this minimal and sleek lighting concept is Clayton Oxford's, Contemporary Rectangular Island Ceiling Light, a contemporary in style and form, the Rectangle Shaped Hanging Island Ceiling Fixture light features reverse cut concave Brown Lipp Shell inlays with Stainless Steel Mounts. Sleek and minimalist in design and style, this transitional to contemporary ceiling light is ideal over a bar / kitchen setting or even a to be used as a modern pool table light.

Also available as a single rail and a wall sconce.

Milan Preview: ‘Pipeknot’ by Keiji Ashizawa

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:41:00 +0000

Posted by Nora Schmidt

'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota

Our Japanese friend Keiji Ashizawa just sent us this new project, which will be presented at this year’s Salone Satellite in Milan. The series ‘Pipeknot’ consists of a coat rack, a coffee table and a table – all of them are assembles by the same system. Welded steel pipes form the constructive knots. The wooden sticks which pass through them are fixed by dowels.

'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota

In Milan Keiji will introduce the first three designs, they will be followed by many more using the same technique.

'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota

'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa

Clayton Oxford's SLICED BAMBOO FLOOR LAMP

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:03:00 +0000

DESCRIPTION: Unique in design and form, each lamp is hand inlaid with slices of sustainable natural bamboo.Given these lamps are handcrafted using finest selection of natural reclaimed materials, each is slightly unique as they are designed by nature and crafted by hand.

MEASUREMENTS:
Large - 16"w x 16"d x 60"h
Medium - 16"w x 16"d x 48"h
Small - 16"w x 16"d x 30"h

Affordable Shipping Container House in Quebec

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:53:00 +0000

Shipping containers are at the forefront of a new era of usefulness. Traditionally used to carry goods via cargo ship, train or truck, these steel boxes are capable of withstanding huge amounts of pressure and weight. This makes them structurally stable, fireproof, mold-proof and weather-proof. Unfortunately each has a lifespan of only 20 years for its original purpose. That means when their work is done hauling stuff, they get retired and sent to junk yards or landfills even though they are still structurally solid. Now architects and designers recognize their usefulness as building blocks for homes, offices, apartments, schools and more. This home in Quebec was built by a couple intent on reducing the amount of wood that goes into building homes and also saving money.

Looking at it from the exterior one would never know that seven 8 x 20 ft shipping containers were used to construct this house. That’s because the exterior is clad in normal siding and 5 to 5 1/2 inches of spray foam insulation. Inside though, you can see the interior of each shipping container and the corrugated steel frame. Even the serial numbers for each container and some dents are visible. Not all shipping container homes are like that though, many are clad on both the interior and exterior with conventional materials to hide the steel frame. But this Quebec couple, architect Bernard Morin and wife Joyce Labelle, wanted to show off the containers for what they are — modern and strong.

The 4 bedroom home is 3,000 square feet and built for a family with 6 children. A traditional house of this size with wood framing would have cost the family at least $400,000, but instead cost the family only $175,000. That’s $58 per square foot - practically unheard of for an American home. Which is one of the reasons why shipping container homes are becoming so popular - they’re cheap to build. They also have a number of other benefits like structural stability, low-maintenance, rot- and mold- proof, and they are very easy to put together and construct a home in a short amount of time. This home took only 10 months to build out.

Maple trees on the lot were felled to make room for the home, but were then reused for siting, support beams and stairs. The floors are cement with radiant cooling system to keep the home at a very comfortable temperature. Other features include door-less glass showers with river stone tiling, the original shipping container floors were reused on the ceiling and metal grating is used as outdoor decking. All of which helps create a modern, urban looking home, but built within a forest.

This Quebec couple have even started a company called Maison IDEKIT to start construction on more shipping container homes. They have two more residential projects on the boards to start this summer and they have 4 different house plans ready to build out. Like prefab homes, shipping container homes are very quick to build. Site work and gray work is completed first, then the containers are dropped into place in less than a day, and then after wards the interior is built out. The long process of framing a house is left out, which reduces the construction time and cost considerably.

+ Building cheaper, green homes by CTV.

+ Maison IDEKIT

SUSTAINABLE FURNISHINGS FOR CONTAINER HOMES

Reclaimed Teak Tables - Brent Comber and Clayton Oxford

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:26:00 +0000

Have you ever come across this type of unusual furniture made up of sustainable harvested wood? These wooden furniture series is designed by Brent Comber, a Canadian designer using wood and this concept features branches which have been bundled together and cut into geometric forms. This type of design will always give you a feel of tree in a modern form. This design gives a notion of crushed or shattered glass. There are different shades of furniture including wooden chairs, lampshades with small holes drilled in the side to let light through. This furniture can be a wonderful piece of art for home décor.

Comber's style is similar to that of Clayton Oxford (www.claytonoxford.com). Clayton Oxford's Reclaimed Teak Coffee table shares the sustainable mission and creative design. See below:

Reclaimed Teak Wood Coffee Table
ITEM #: CO09-074

DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed Teak Wood branches are gathered and pieced by hand to form this unique cocktail table table.

Ideal in any interior design style, the natural shape and form elicits and organic touch to any room's decor.

Eclectic in nature, this eco-friendly, sustainable furniture design adapts to any interior decor location.

Each Reclaimed Teak Wood Accent Design is unique given the high quality natural materials used.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for similar product references.

Custom designs, and sizes also available.

MEASUREMENTS: 32"w x 32"d x 18"h

MAHI MAHI DOLPHIN FISH LIGHT

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:43:00 +0000

MAHI MAHI DOLPHIN FISH LIGHT
ITEM #: CO08-071

DESCRIPTION: White Oyster and Penshell inlaid Mahi Mahi Dolphin Fish Design Accent Light, Hand Forged and Painted metal mounts, black snakeskin marble base

Each handcrafted Mahi Mahi Dolphin Fish Design piece is slightly unique due to the fact that the natural White Oyster Shell, Young Tiger Penshell, and Natural Stone Marble are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand.

MEASUREMENTS: 18"w x 16"d x 33"h

Urban Waste to Forestry Waste, Furniture from Both Sides, Fumi Masuda and Clayton Oxford

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:30:00 +0000

For many people, there’s nothing worse than the thought of moving. But now at least you can find some solace in the moving process knowing that any discarded furniture may have a second life as Fumi Masuda’s stunning Pile Chair, which is built out of old and discarded furniture collected by movers. The idea came from a Japanese moving company, Mover, that provides a service to collect discarded furniture (think of all the sofas and chairs you see strewn on the sidewalk). As an alternative to disposal, the company figured that the furniture could be used as raw material for new designs, instead of the end product. Fumi Masuda’s Pile Chair emerged from a collaborative project with students and teachers from the Design Department at Tokyo Zokei University and Mover.

As of now, Pile Chair is just a prototype. But, as Scrapile has proven, the Pile Chair shows that reusing rubbish is a pretty good way of demonstrating environmental concern while producing beautiful furniture that has history and tells a story. Stay tuned this afternoon for an interview with Fumi Masuda about his sustainable design practices.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD:

Moving waste in an urban environment begets a Pile Chair like that by Fumi Masuda, but in other environments excess waste could be the fallen twigs of Laggni trees. Check out this Wall Sconce, produced by Clayton Oxford Designs.

Taking these fallen twigs repurposes the waste to make beauty. See: http://www.claytonoxford.com/CO12-003.html.

"Elevated," Noah Brezel - natural meets industrial

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:46:00 +0000

In Noah Brezel's furniture piece, Elevated, the industrial appears to spring up like wildflowers among its inhabitants. Imagine a loft space or even a lounge or bar, absent of tables and chairs, scattered with this new take on cocktail furnishings.
Naturally, people are moved through the room to perch t another outcropping to place their drink, while they grab their phone to text a friend to meet them, or you need a place to set your glass of red wine while you eat the bite size endive crab salad with a pomegranate vinegarette. I like it! Take me there now.
cork, concrete, aluminum, 34 x 6 x 5 in.

Reclaimed Coffee Wood Root Console Table

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:02:00 +0000

Reclaimed Coffee Wood Root Console Table
ITEM #: CO08-134

DESCRIPTION: Using the root burl of the coffee wood tree, the roots are selected to form this eclectic freeform console table.

The top is a natural slice of Meh Wood, mounted on satin finished stainless steel supports.

The organic forms and natural materials combined with stainless steel form a unique console table for any style from rustic to contemporary.

Each Table is unique given the high quality natural materials used.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for similar product references.

MEASUREMENTS: 60"W x 17.5"d x 31.5"h
custom sizes also available, please contact for information.

Who is the GREEN OX?

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:51:00 +0000

He's mean. He's grumpy. And he's allergic to "throw-away" furniture.

He is the GREEN OX from the cyberPasture.

Meet him at: http://thegreenox.blogspot.com/

Why we like him...
The Green Ox is a source for information and education on sustainable furniture practices.

Maple Phone, calling mother nature

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:00 +0000

You are looking at what could quite possibly be the greenest cellphone concept ever thought up by a designer to date. It’s called the Maple phone, and is supposedly made out of thin wooden film that has backlighting and many touch-sensitive buttons.

The Maple phone looks like an ordinary candybar at first glance, but of course nothing about this phone is “ordinary” at all.

Measuring 4.5 x 10.4 x 9.8 cm, the Maple phone can slide to reveal a LCD screen that goes hand in hand with the capacitive touch body. It should be able to provide users with basic cellphone technology, as well as proof of inner nature-friendliness.

The Maple phone may not look like it’s one of the most durable phones ever, but it sure gives you that “I’m in love with Mother Nature” look more than anything.

Creative Reuse: Reclaimed Wood Box Stairs

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:50:00 +0000

As part of a project in Germany, Jan Korbes used recovered antique floor wood and leftover construction wood to create this unusual staircase of add-on boxes. This is just one of many "garbage architecture" projects by the Dutch firm.

Reclaimed Mahogany Wood Cross Bar Dining Table

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:47:00 +0000

Reclaimed Mahogany Wood Dining Table
ITEM #: CO10-045

DESCRIPTION: Using select plantation hardwoods, which some date back centuries old, the sustainble wood are reclaimed and restored into making unique eco friendly furniture designs.

By mixing materials, both old and new, innovative furnishings are created to form furniture with distinctive looks and styles.

This Mahogany Dining is a fine example of such reclaimed wood pieces, using old Plantation Mahogany, combined with solid wood veneer accents. The wood veneers also come in four finish options.

The old recycled hardwood mixed matches to fit any interior design style from old world rustic to contemporary.

This table is designed with a mahogany lattice work cross bar pedestal base for a unique design.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for product reference, and due to the old reclaimed material used, each product will vary slightly.

Reclaimed mahogany wood desk, clayton oxford eco-friendly furniture design

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:57:00 +0000

For additional product information
contact us at 646-233-1005
or email: info@claytonoxford.com

Coordinating Products:
Reclaimed Mahogany Strips Desk
ITEM #: CO10-100

DESCRIPTION: Crafted from Recycled Mahogany Strips, this desk collaborates recycled old world reclaimed materials into a sleek new eco-friendly designed desk.

Using select plantation hardwoods, which some date back centuries old, the sustainable wood are reclaimed and restored into making unique eco friendly furniture designs.

By mixing materials, both old and new, innovative furnishings are created to form furniture with distinctive looks and styles.

The top and drawers are crafted with select hardwood veneers, and 4 finish options are available.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for product reference, and due to the old reclaimed material used, each product will vary slightly.

MEASUREMENTS: 69.5"w x 23.5"d x 30"h (via Clayton Oxford)

Recycled Mahogany Platform Bed with stainless steel base| Sustainable, eco friendly furniture design

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:52:00 +0000

Reclaimed Mahogany Platform Bed
ITEM #: CO10-111

DESCRIPTION: Crafted from Recycled Mahogany Strips, this Platform bed combined old world reclaimed materials into a sleek new eco-friendly designed bed. Featuring a solid wood veneer headboard with stainless steel accents and base.

Shown with optional recycled mahogany and stainless steel end table options.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for product reference, and due to the old reclaimed material used, each product will vary slightly.

MEASUREMENTS:

* Queen - 81"w x 102"d x 34.5"h
* King - 92.5"w x 102"d x 34.5"h (via Clayton Oxford)

Products listed at This Next.com

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:46:00 +0000

Mahogany wood tree Natural Design coat rack tree

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:06:00 +0000

The Natural Mahogany Wood Tree Coat Rack features a polished natural tree stump, crafted to form a unique coat / hat stand with a rustic eclectic style.

Available in an oiled or natural finish, this coat stand brings out a distinctive natural element to any interior decor with its organic lines and warm mahogany colors.

Each Mahogany Wood Tree Coat Rack decorative item is unique given the high quality natural materials used.

The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for similar product references.

MEASUREMENTS: average size - 78"h

For additional product information
contact us at 646-233-1005
or email: info@claytonoxford.com (via Clayton Oxford)

SLICED BAMBOO FLOOR VASE

noreply@blogger.com (Clayton Oxford Designs) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:03:00 +0000

Unique in design and form, the Sliced Bamboo Rings Floor vase series features hand inlaid and sliced natural bamboo, mixed with inlaid recycled Aluminum accents to provide a balance of materials for any interior space and decorative style.

Each sliced bamboo floor vase is slightly is unique given the high quality natural materials used. The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand.

MEASUREMENTS:

* MEDIUM - 19"w x 19"d x 60"h
* LARGE - 19"w x 19"d x 72"h

For additional product information
contact us at 646-233-1005
or email: info@claytonoxford.com (via Clayton Oxford)