I was commissioned to create a dining room table by incorporating a 500 year old ceiling piece from a Tibetan Monastery.  The top was built by the Monks out of pine and used as a suspended ceiling in a worship building. The Monks were not the best craftsman but had a magnificent comand of wood stains from organic sources. I used the same scale baffle detailing in the base and then incorporated current low VOC water based custom stains to capture the same coloration as was used in the original ceiling piece. I also incapcilated the deteriorating corners with a pressure fit Oak  ornamental piece that helped strengthen the Monk surface. There was no alteration of the original ceiling material.  The base was done out of solid and veneer Red Oak which was great with the red stains and gave the base as much life as the orginal top.

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