Woodworker: Marc Cutonilli

Cutonilli was fishing after class when the inspiration for this hall table flew right over his head: a bald eagle, the first he’d ever seen. The stepped design of the legs, made by overlapping sheets of 1⁄8-in.-thick Balticbirch plywood, is an homage to the eagle’s enormous wingspan. Cutonilli faced the plywood with curly holly veneer and lipped it with solid holly before laminating the stepped sandwich on a curved form in a vacuum bag. The top is a torsion box mitered to the legs. The table is 11 in. wide by 40 in. long by 34 in. tall.

Cutonilli completed this piece as a student at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine.