Spectacular slab tables in Mexico and a few tree photos

Secrets The Vine is a magnificent hotel in Cancun.

No children and all inclusive with plenty of activities, sort of like a cruise without the seasickness.

It uses timber  and glass throughout and and I can recommend its showers as the best I've seen anywhere, double showers enclosed in glass around 4m x 2m x 3m high.

Back to timber in the hotel

Slab Table. 5 m long x over 1 metre wide x 100m thick.
Central cracks but the faults are made into a wonderful feature with the use of bow-tie butterfly connections. The legs consist of 2 slabs 100mm thick x 800mm wide, inset into the top slab in a routed  recess and bolted into place.



Showing the crutch grain of one end of the table


Large tree near the Maya Chichen Itza complex. Was told it was an Alamo Tree


Cedrela Odorata at Chitchen Itza (more to come on the invasion of this tree in the Galapagos Islands after planting by Norwegians in the 1950s in a coming thread)



Back to Secrets Hotel. Seats/coffee table(s).
End grain boards joined and then cut into 4 using (I assume) a large band saw?


Large slab table 5m x 1.2m x 70mm


Table leg showing wonderful crutch grain, butterfly connections and the bolts holding the legs to the table


Coffee Table with iron legs, 900mm wide x 100mm thick simple design but wonderful use of timber


Coffee Tables or seats, carved from a leg section

Close up of carving and timber colour. Very effective and functional, not sure how it was made but....I'd like some


Large 250mm x 250mm beams and timber used in outside bar area

(Another) slab table, this one only 70mm thick