Plywood table

To mark the release of the Donald Judd Furniture book, we have selected six key pieces of furniture designed by the American artist.

Happy Monday my loves!! Have I got a fun and suuuuper simple project for you today! As some of you know, we’re in the process of renovating and rebranding our family restaurant Durango’s Mexican Grill.

Ah….the 4×8′ sheet of birch plywood. A timeless DIY material, strong, dimensionally stable, and full of crisp lines and repeated grain patterns. It’s great for everything from workshop jigs to cabinet carcasses to casework to… a full sized dining table?

Timeless design that's crafted to last for generations at Schoolhouse.

Developing this new material is our way of exploring new and interesting ways of approaching waste. Discover our process and our approach to developing sustainability within our business

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. Japanese architects Naruse Inokuma tore away wallpaper and applied additional layers of cement and putty to create a mottled surface over the exposed concrete. Sliding doors between the rooms of the Setagaya Flat are made from larch

We collaborated with Bohlin Cynwiski Jackson on the fabrication of the furniture for Blue Bottle Coffee's Henry House cafe - located below Blue Bottle's Oakland headquarters in the historic Henry House (originally built in 1877). The furniture for this cafe (about 50 pieces in all) consisted of tables, stools, standing tables, and a cupping table (located in the training lab) - was all crafted in 1.5" thick birch ply panels with plastic laminate on both sides with expressed end/edge…