fabrication

My first project for Jay Hargrave was building 50 mesquite tables with custom steel bases for the Georgetown restaurant El Monumento. A year later, they decided to turn their catering pavilion into a bar, and we designed and installed this continuous mesquite bar that leaves the floor, circles the room unbroken, and returns to the floor where it left. 

This project was a mix of pre-fabrication and on-site assembly that typified the culture at JHA. We tried to fabricate as much as possible in the shop, and transport it to the site in the largest pieces possible, based on the equipment available and the site constraints. The steel stanchions, plywood sheathing, stainless steel form-work for the concrete equipment base, the mitered soffits, and the steel pipe foot rest were all pre-fabricated in the shop and installed with little more than screws and finish nails. 

We transported the seventy-five feet of continuous mesquite bartop to the site in 10 pre-fabricated sections, and glued together the glue-ups onsite. The final step was hand-glueing the 3” square mesquite floor tiles and finishing the whole thing with hand-rubbed urethane. 

All Projects by JHA. Aaron Denton Co-Designer and Co-Fabricator.