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Describe Plank and Trestle in a couple of<br />
sentences.<br />
Plank and Trestle specialises in designing and<br />
building trestle tables for homes, restaurants and<br />
retail spaces. All our trestle tables are lovingly<br />
designed and hand-crafted in Gerringong on the<br />
beautiful NSW South Coast. We have a number<br />
of different ranges and we also custom-make<br />
trestle tables in any size or style.<br />
We strongly believe in high-quality hand-made<br />
furniture design and manufacture and craft each<br />
trestle table we make as if it were for our own<br />
house, as a piece to be passed down between<br />
generations. We are utterly obsessed with all<br />
things trestle!<br />
Who is the Plank and Trestle team?<br />
Plank and Trestle is Mike and Lana Hall,<br />
a husband and wife team and small but<br />
industrious duo with lots of passion and<br />
creativity. I, Lana, design each trestle table and<br />
look after all the customer liaison, business<br />
admin and photography/styling.<br />
Mike turns these designs into reality and builds<br />
all Plank and Trestle’s tables.<br />
The best way to describe this partnership is<br />
that I am the crazy ideas person and Mike is the<br />
reality check.<br />
Mike says he always get slightly worried when I<br />
walk into the workshop, give a cheeky smile and<br />
say, ‘Babe, I have been thinking about a new<br />
table….’<br />
We have three cheeky junior trestlers aged<br />
6 years, 4 years and 10 months who like to<br />
‘help’ as well. Favourite jobs they have given<br />
themselves include sneaking into product photos<br />
with out us realizing and popping the bubble<br />
wrap while we are trying to package tables!<br />
What inspired you to start Plank and Trestle?<br />
I have always loved interior design and have<br />
dreamed of designing and making beautiful<br />
things for as long as I can remember.<br />
Trestle tables became one of the many homewares<br />
obsessions that I was constantly on the<br />
look-out for when we bought our first home.<br />
I had always wanted a trestle desk but could not<br />
find one that wasn’t either a cheap mass-market<br />
overseas-made product that would not stand<br />
the test of time or an ultra-expensive designer<br />
piece that was totally outside the realms of<br />
financial possibility.<br />
There were no options in the middle that were<br />
high quality and had that ‘wow factor’ whilst still<br />
being reasonably priced.
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