Hickory Kitchen Tables

All of our kitchen tables are custom-designed to your specifications, created from a number of beautiful hardwoods -- including solid maple.

Hickory hardwood is available in the following stain colors.

Please see below for details and pricing on these options.

Custom Walnut & Hickory Turin Kitchen Table	Custom Hickory Montreal Kitchen Table
Sunset Hickory Alexandria Kitchen Table	Natural Hickory Riverside Kitchen Table
Natural Hickory Riverside Kitchen Table	Natural Hickory Mission Kitchen Table
Natural Hickory Western Kitchen Table

Hickory Kitchen Tables

Hardwoods, like people, have their own individual characteristics. Oak is extremely hard; in fact you have to pre-drill a nail hole. Cherry wood changes color over time, going from a blond blush when newly cut to a deep, rich rose.

Hickory is the hardest and strongest. Pioneers valued it for their wagon wheels, which had to hold up for hundreds of miles over rugged terrain. They also prized it for their axe and adze handles, as well as for the two-man saw handles they used to cut down trees to create farmland.

In its natural state, when first cut, the heartwood of hickory is a rich tea-colored brown. The sapwood is fine-rained and very pale – almost the color of unbleached paper. Sold under different names, red hickory and white hickory, the wood actually comes from the same tree, and shares the same characteristics, being difficult to work but very "stiff" and abrasion resistant. In time, both age to a color more like amber, which is the yellow of strong sunlight underlain with shades of brown and orange.

It is also one of the woods Erik Organic's Amish craftsmen choose for their finest kitchen tables – those meant to last for generations and obtain "heirloom quality" status.

One of the most spectacular uses of hickory is in the Turin mixed-wood kitchen table, a style that leans heavily on the principle of a pedestal table, though the pedestals are more like a tapered plinth on a base, and the dual-pedestal table connects the pedestals with a stretcher.

In the Turin, white hickory is alternated with red hickory in both the table edge, in what Erik Organic calls a "timber edge", and in the outside corners of the squared pedestal and its base, giving the Turin an Art Deco appearance whose bold lines will rescue an otherwise drab, utilitarian kitchen.

This same enduring hickory wood is also available in the Western Kitchen Table, an adaptation of Mission styling whose elegantly curved leg-and-stretcher design takes advantage of hickory wood's affinity for steam bending.

Of course, all of Erik Organic's kitchen table styles can be custom-made in hickory or other sustainably grown and harvested hardwoods, with the same guarantee of quality and satisfaction.