Walnut, the top comprised of one inch strips with banded edge, lozenge shaped with conforming detachable leaves with hinged leg supports to the leaves, the central table with four straight tapered legs, ink signed to underside.

30.25 x 48.25 x 96.25 in., each leaf 36 in., length overall 168.25 in.

From the Estate of the late Lewis Clarke, Raleigh, North Carolina; a noted landscape architect / architect who taught at the North Carolina State University, School of Design from 1952-1968.

Clarke custom designed this table along with a local wood craftsman, Wiley Robertson, Jr., in 1966 for the 3125 Darien Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina house.

Clarke came to Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1951, gaining a master's degree in landscape architecture. Invited by Dean Henry Kamphoefner to teach at the NCSU School of Design, he moved to Raleigh and taught from 1952 to 1968. According to Clarke, when he came here in 1952 there was no landscape architecture. Most architects had no idea what it was and were primarily concerned with getting their houses built. Some didn't even plan for driveways. Clarke recalls that Thomas Hayes was the first to "get it" and made landscape design a prominent part of his appeal to out-of-state clients moving to wealthy Southern Pines and Pinehurst, NC.

Tops with indents, surface scratches and some staining.