Irish Industrial and Work Tables

Antique Bakery Island, soon to be a Kitchen Island imported from Ireland. This is the description from the gentleman whom we purchased the shop counter from in Ireland, who has been in the antique business for the last 40-years. “Rare 19th. C. Irish Scumbled Pine Baker's Island with four working drawers over eight panel doors with towel railing at the side raised on square legs”. What the description of the newly converted Kitchen Island was missing are the correct number of drawers, which now stand at eight large and very functional drawers. As beautiful as this potential Kitchen Island was, the height just did not work for our Modern American Kitchen Islands, which is roughly 36”. So, this Antique Irish Bakery Counter, or Bakery Island, has been sitting in our workshop for months, while we thought about all the possible options to raise this Antique Island up to 36” in height. Finally, it dawned on us to fabricate another set of (4) matching drawers, with 19th c matching style hardware that we could create and still maintain the beautiful original aesthetics of the Irish Bakery Island. The real obstacle was not casting the hardware (which we did inhouse), but blending the all-original 19th century scumbled finish, which can be difficult. The top of the Antique Island and 75% of the entire Kitchen Island’s body still maintains its original 130-year-old finish. I do have to confess, that the original towel bars on the end of the Antique Kitchen Island...

In Ireland, where we purchased this antique oak work table, it was described as an “antique oak refectory table, four plank top on six turn...

Rare circa 1840 Irish pine farmhouse table with a fantastic thick two thick gnarly plank top, from County Meath, Ireland.

19th c. Killarney-ware arbutus marquetry work table. The rectangular top ornately inlaid with a crowned harp, shamrock and fern leaves, roundels depicting ruins and a cottage. The li...

A circa 1850 very substantial Irish scrubbed pine 1 drawer refectory table, original paint from County Meath, Ireland.

Fantastic original antique Irish work table still retaining it's hand-wrought iron braces for added strength and stability. Originally utilized in farm house kitchens, tables such as...

A rustic square-legged table with double stretcher base featuring a single lap-jointed drawer with original walnut knob and tongue and groove bottom to the deep front apron and bread...