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A rendering of a dark mid-century dining table on splayed legs with Y-shaped corner brackets, in an open-plan family room in daylight.

Solid hardwood
Elevation
Shown in a rendered room

Mid-century dining tables on splayed legs

The Mid-Century Splayed Leg table by Robert Russell Designs: solid hardwood on legs raked out from the corners, built to take a center leaf. Size, species and finish are settled when the table is drawn.

Begin a commission How it gets made

Elevation · Splayed leg

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Form
Splayed leg
Material
Solid hardwood
Made
Geneva, Illinois
Finish
Hard wax through to high-gloss flood coat
Delivery
White glove, placed in the room

Drawn from the boards it will be built from, and sized to your room. Every piece on this page is a one-off.

In this collection

6 photographed

  • Close-up of a dark-finished wooden table with V-shaped angled legs, placed on a light carpeted floor against a white wall.
  • Dark wooden rectangular table with outward-angled legs in a carpeted room, positioned beneath three framed wall pictures and next to a window with white curtains.
  • Dark-finished wooden table with angular legs, photographed against a dark studio wall.
  • Dark wood extendable dining table split in the middle for leaf insertion, placed on carpeted flooring with framed wall art and wall-mounted lights in the background.
  • Dark wood dining table shown partially extended with a center gap for leaf insertion, placed on carpeted flooring with framed artwork and wall-mounted lights on the wall behind.
  • Dark-finished rectangular wooden table with corner-positioned legs, photographed against a dark studio wall.

The splayed leg is the whole form. The legs rake outward from the corners rather than dropping straight, and the top sits light above them. I keep everything else on the table quiet so that line is what the eye goes to.

Tops are solid hardwood. Walnut, elm and maple are the usual choices, picked for stability as much as for figure, and I select the boards against the room the table is going into.

The frame is built to take a center leaf, so the table opens to its longer length without the proportions changing.

Shown here in a dark finish. Size, species and finish are settled when I draw the table from the boards it will be built from.

Before you ask

Can I see the table before it is built?
That is the whole way I work. When slabs are used, I cut each slab out in Photoshop, size it against the measurements marked on it, and lay your top out to your dimensions. Then a SketchUp model shows the shape, proportions and details, along with AI-assisted visualizations to help you see the table in a finished space, before a board is cut. The drawing lands within a few percent of the finished table.
Can I see the wood and the finish first?
Yes. A sample board is made and shipped to you, so you can hold the species, the resin and the finish in your own room before anything is cut.
How is a commission priced?
Every piece is priced from its dimensions, its species and its base, so there is no list. Tell me the room and the budget you have in mind and I will tell you what is possible inside it. Size, species and base all move.
How does it get to me?
Across Chicagoland, I generally handle delivery and installation personally. Everywhere else, pieces travel white glove and are placed in the room. My work has gone to 47 of the 48 continental states.
Who actually builds it?
I design every piece myself and lead the build in my studio in Geneva, Illinois, from the drawing to the finish. You deal with me from the first call to the installation. There is no salesperson or account rep in between, and nobody the project is handed off to.
Do you make anything besides tables?
Bespoke and wall pieces, yes, and I am taking more of that work.

More of the work

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