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These neat little side tables go very well with any of our coffee tables. Order a brace of side tables with your wonderful coffee table to place your evening drink or morning tea on. Made from the finest hardwood in the world.
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400 mm |
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Coffee Tables available in Reclaimed & Harvested Zambezi Teak. Click on Images to Enlarge: |
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Reclaimed African Hardwood Coffee Side Tables
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Harvested Zambezi Teak Coffee Side Tables
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These neat little side tables go very well with any of our coffee tables. Order a brace of side tables with your wonderful coffee table to place your evening drink or morning tea on. Made from the finest reclaimed hardwood in the world.
The timber used to build this wonderful piece is probably the finest and most valuable timber used anywhere in the world to build furniture.
Finest because of its unique properties of extreme hardness and density (just try to pick up a Savanna Wood table and you will see what we mean) and beautiful colour and rich close grain, opulently finished by our expert craftsmen. African hardwoods, and especially the Zambezi Teak used at Savanna Wood, largely as a result of adaptation to the tough environment they grow in, are much denser than other so-called ‘hardwood’ species used to build furniture. This makes the timber very difficult to work with, but virtually indestructible. At Savanna Wood we take great pride and care to build our products to the highest standards, with the best and most effective joinery methods being used for each piece. Thus our products will last many generations if card for.
Valuable because of the rarity of this wonderful resource. At the turn of the last century railroads were built into Central Africa to open up the region to trade and administration. The ‘sleepers’ or ‘ties’ used to build these railways were harvested from a locally available resource, African Hardwoods, and in particular Zambezi Teak. The majority of these timbers have long since been replaced by concrete. However, some still exist on old rail lines or in mines, or were collected by locals when they were lifted to use as fence posts or building material. At Savanna Wood we have teams scouring Central Africa for the wonderful and valuable timbers to manufacture into truly unique Furniture products. However, there are very few timbers left, and they will increase in value exponentially, as will the Savanna Wood furniture made from them!
The wildness and beauty of the African bush growing on the deep and ancient sands of the Kalahari veldt belies the savagely harsh conditions under which diverse species of flora manage to prosper and grow. To survive these adverse conditions requires a resilience and toughness unknown in other species. One of the hardest and most durable of these African hardwood trees, Baikiaea plurijuga, a.k.a. Zambezi Teak, is amongst the most beautiful timbers in the world, with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. Savanna Wood harvest B. plurijuga on a strictly sustainable basis from the vast forests of Matabeleland situated on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert, under the watchful supervision of the Forestry Commission, an internationally respected body who are charged with the preservation of all indigenous forests. Savanna Wood pay royalties on all timber cut to Forestry Commission and into a trust for development projects in the communities living on the fringes of the forests. These projects include self sufficiency gardening projects, installation of boreholes, development of school and clinic infrastructure and so on (please see our sections on ‘Community Projects’, the Savanna Wood ‘Employment Policy’ and ‘Preserving the Zambezi Teak forests’). Because they benefit so much from these arrangements, it is in the communities’ interests to preserve the forests. If they did not benefit in this manner it would not be in their interests to look after the forest, and they would simply cut the trees down and convert it to agricultural use. This would be a disaster on two counts: firstly we would lose the teak forests, and secondly the very fragile soils of the Kalahari sands would rapidly deteriorate under peasant agricultural practice and become desert wasteland. The sustainable utilization of these forests is therefore essential to their preservation.
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