The Pennsylvania Table & Buckland Chair — A Dining Set Designed for Family Life

Connection: Individual Client

Location: Northern Saskatchewan Acreage

Date: May, 2026

Material: Black Walnut and Tanned Leather

The Pennsylvania dining table is an established design in the collection. This commission was a remix — a breakfast nook version for a young family, which meant scaling down the format without losing what makes the original work.

The crossed diagonal base stays. The through mortise and tenon joints that lock the angled legs into the diagonal column are exposed and celebrated — the joinery is the detail, not something to hide.

Rounded corners and fully softened edges replace the sharper geometry of the original table design. The decision is practical — children will inevitably run into just about any table corner they can find — this ideally will mitigate that with style. The curves read as playful without being juvenile, and they balance the angular crossing of the base beneath them.

The chairs are new. This is the Buckland — designed alongside the table for this project and built around the same design logic: generous curves, soft edges, and semi-circles held in tension with perpendicular joints and hard angles.

A line runs on an angle, turns a tight radius, and ends in a tangent. The transitions are the design. The joinery on the Buckland chair is more restrained than the table. Dowels turned from the same walnut stock are wedged into the frame and left visible along the organic curve of the back leg — a quiet detail that rewards close attention. The backrest itself is a bent bull horn shape, a reference to Danish chair design. It reads simply from across the room and holds the back well at the table.

The leather seats were made in collaboration with a skilled leatherworker. The profile matches the curve of the backrest, with a waterfall edge at the front that softens the transition from seat to leg. High-density foam underneath — built for long dinners. Unfortunately, the kids will use them for approximately four minutes before jumping off and running away to play.

The Buckland is now part of the collection. It started as a chair designed for a specific table, a specific room, and a family with young children — which turned out to be exactly the right constraints.