Custom tables from salvaged walnut — a tree that once gave a harvest, living on as something you'll gather around. Its knots and natural openings become mandalas, inlaid and finished by hand.
A few recent pieces. Every top is shaped around the natural figure of the wood — the inlay follows the grain, never the other way around.
Every table starts with a single piece of salvaged walnut, chosen for its figure and its character.
Natural knots and cracks are routed out — not hidden, but made the center of the design.
Each void is filled with an intricate veneer mandala, built up layer by layer in concentric rings.
The inlay is leveled flush, surfaced, and finished by hand, until the whole top reads as one piece.
For more than thirty years, William Bradbury has built custom furniture and one-of-a-kind art. The Clear Heart Furniture Co. grew from a simple conviction: that a tree which once gave a harvest can live a second life — as art and furniture that serves our lives in new ways.
Where others see flaws in a slab of walnut, William sees an opening for something else. Its knots and natural voids become hand-inlaid mandalas, drawn to move in flow with the grain — every piece built from a single slab and finished by hand, in his Napa shop.
No two are alike.
Look closely and you'll find the Clear Heart seal burned into the grain: William's signature on every piece, and a quiet promise that one pair of hands built the whole thing.
Tell me what you have in mind — a dining table, a coffee table, the room it lives in — and we'll choose the wood and the design together.
Call the shop or send a note. I answer every inquiry myself — usually once I've cleaned up for the day.
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