This bar table that sits outside of a bourbon bar at the base of the 360 condos.  The owner wanted to extend the seating area outside and create interest and curb appeal for his bar.  The ipe top is very durable and can withstand the weather outside while only needing to be refinished once a year to keep it's beautiful color.

International architecture firm Gensler opened a new office in Austin, TX at the W Hotel.  I met Lance Yeary of Gensler at the East Austin Studio Tour in 2010, where he saw a massive walnut slab at my shop.  His firm immediately commissioned this table.  The only drawback was that the 15 foot long slab would not fit in their feight elevator.  Lance said, no problem.  They were hiring a crane, and removing a window, to bring a steel staircase into the office anyway.  The day of delivery, I pulled up to the building with the table top crate in the back of my truck.  Riggers threw straps around it, and up my table went into the sky and through the office window where it still sits today. 

Meet the first in a series of accessable designs by Eric Billig FACTORY. (www.ericbilligfactory.com). Featured is the "bow" mudular coffee table in hardcoated MDF. Also available in laser cut american made sustainable maple in plywood.

Christy came to me with a very strong visual idea for an expandable dining table.  She had visions of a dramatic Art Deco-inspired base made of a big "X".  I designed a base with curved, bent-laminated shapes that joined in the center.  It was a crazy, nutty frenzy of construction: 24 layers of oak veneer in a big clamping form with glue squeezing everywhere.  But somehow, miraculously, it worked, and how.

Dining table with six chairs in ash.  

These projects were commissioned by Castleview Productions for their new office in central Austin. We designed these projects to meet their budget, and we built and delivered everything to meet their time frame. During the design phase, they gave us plenty of room to use our imaginations. To keep costs down, we specified stained maple, painted formaldehyde-free mdf, and ordinary steel. And we even used a salvaged stainless steel refrigerator door for the bar in the kitchen!

The Umasi Collection is specifically designed to blur the line between furniture and sculpture - with perfect panels that collide into organic elements. 

Because Umasi is largely built of salvaged materials, it clearly comments on the nature of our consumer society. But it's also a ready platform for other forms of social commentary, with references to art history, contemporary culture, and even the politics of war.

We hope you enjoy Umasi. 

The BigLittle Series is a dynamic line of furniture that's playfully named for it's union of large and small volumes, Chronically off-center, it features bold colors and a range of customizable configurations.

And BigLittle treads lightly on the environment, with choices that include formaldehyde-free materials and low-VOC finishes.

Amdur  tables through the years.....

Curly Maple was cut down for a right of way in Oregon somewhere and transported to Texas by friends, who alerted me as to the where abouts of some fantastic boards.  

Then the base was made for a photo shoot - with  microchips laid out on a gambling table-  for the photographer Tomas Pantin.....a "shoot" for a High Tech Magazine Cover.....

Now,  after 20 years of daily work, the table has been refinished to a silky smooth touch.