Cedar Sofa Tables

This is an old Japanese wooden table, believed to date from the late Edo period to the Taisho period, circa 1850s to 1920s. It is a rare piece with a distinctive structure, featurin...

This is an old wooden storage box made in Japan. It is thought to date from around the Meiji period and is made of cedar. It has a simple design with no metal fittings. The overall m...

Japanese antique Zataku low table for 4 people, a set of tabletop & wooden leg frame. Aimed to make as Kotatsu table (heat table with brazier) in winter. Tabletop material is ma...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, fully restored Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 extending sofa table with removable top, Chess board and...

This is a tool used by lacquerware craftsmen from around 1868 to 1950. Lacquerware craftsmen used wooden barrels to mix lacquer by putting vermilion...

This is an old Japanese black wooden box. It is from the Meiji period (1860s-1900s). The material is cedar. This is black and beautiful. Afte...

This is a rare old Japanese wooden low table, believed to date from the late Meiji period to the Taisho period, circa 1860s to 1920s. The tabletop is made from a single solid slab o...

This antique round low table was crafted in the Taisho Era (1912–1926) from Keyaki (Japanese zelkova). The solid zelkova top displays beautifully figured grain patterns, rich in char...

A monolithic, late Meiji-period Japanese low tea platform and display plinth hand-hewn from a massive, 8 cm (3.15 in) thick slab of solid Japanese horse chestnut (Tochi). Weighing over 29 lbs (13.3 kg), the timber features a silky, tactile surface rich in golden-amber tones, bearing authentic historic knife marks and artisanal wooden patches (Umeki). On the reverse, heavy integrated timber battens elevate the slab just off the ground, while an organic natural burl cavity reveals the ancient soul of the tree. Dense, old-growth Japanese horse chestnut (Tochi) of this thickness and width is exceptionally scarce. Celebrated for its gentle resilience and luminous grain, this utilitarian treasure seamlessly embodies the Wabi-Sabi ethos of finding sublime beauty in humble, hard-working objects. It functions effortlessly as a grounded floor tea table (Chabudai), an altar-like sculpture plinth, or an imposing textural wall relief. In person, the piece carries profound physical density and visual warmth. The top surface is smooth to the touch, alive with decades of honest patina and soft knife marks. The integrated rear runners keep it perfectly level and stable on concrete, tatami, or wood floors. The historic timber patches are tight and structural. Originally fashioned as an artisanal pastry or noodle-kneading board (Noshi-Ita) in a regional Japanese household, Tochi wood was prized by woodworkers because its fine grain was gentle on steel knives and naturally resistant to splitting. Over a century of daily ritual and wiping has burnished the wood into an organic masterpiece of Japanese folk craft (Mingei). Multifunctional Use: Ideal as a floor-level tea/cocktail table, an authentic display base for ancient ceramics/sculptures, or hung as a brutalist wood wall...

This extraordinary Meiji-period low table (Banshaku-dai / Ko-tsukue) is a masterpiece of Japanese rustic minimalism, hand-carved from a single, massive block of precious Zelkova wood...

This is an old Japanese low table. Its long, horizontal proportions create a calm and balanced presence, bringing a quiet sense of stability to a space. Free from excessive ornamenta...

A small, quietly endearing antique low table crafted from solid Japanese Keyaki Zelkova, circa 1820s - 1850s, Late Edo period. Modest in scale and simple in form, it reflects a time...