The beautiful new communion table, Produced by The Bethany Group
A new communion table was needed to compliment the organ cases and other millwork. The church asked their Architect, David Stocker of Stocker Hoesterey Montenegro Architects for a design. This is the concept sketch he provided us.
One of the most important design ideas that David shared was to make the one front leg of this table look like the stump of a grape vine growing from the soil. Secondly, to have realistic lush grape leaf foliage growing out of the stump and onto the apron of the table. To accomplish this request, we made a trip to a local vineyard to get photos as models for our carvers.
Photo of a typical grape stump.
Lush, leafy grape foliage.
Here you may view the results of our efforts.
One of our carvers, Fred Wilbur at work carving the table.
An example of a nearly complete carving.
The scripture our client asked us to hand carve into the front of the table is found in 1st. Corinthians 11b – 26, English Standard Version.