A live edge slab is a record of a tree's life — the knots where branches grew, the figure where the grain twisted under stress, the color variations that tell you something about the soil it stood in. When you build a table from a single slab and preserve that edge, you preserve all of it.
Finding the right slab for a Nottingham takes time. It has to be wide enough, long enough, and interesting enough to carry a room. Once it's found, everything else — flattening, finishing, base selection — is in service of that slab.
The result is a table that is genuinely one of a kind. Not as a marketing phrase, but as a simple fact. When your Nottingham is built, that particular combination of wood, edge, and grain will never exist again.
