{"id":1569,"date":"2012-09-25T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:29","slug":"if-only-brooklyn-to-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/if-only-brooklyn-to-west\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"brooklyntowest1\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yzLYMjPZo\/UFufBDC_L_I\/AAAAAAAADjQ\/_gOVLWl3gQg\/s1600\/salvaged_wood_headboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ariele Alasko creates one-of-kind furniture and fixtures from 100% salvaged and recycled materials at her shop\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brooklyntowest.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn to West<\/a>. This headboard is absolutely gorgeous, so understandably her pieces fly off the shelf. No worries she takes custom orders on her headboards and tables. This past summer Ariele finished &#8220;<em>The Big Table<\/em>&#8220;, watch the making in the video below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brooklyn to West - The Big Table\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46118319?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariele Alasko creates one-of-kind furniture and fixtures from 100% salvaged and recycled materials at her shop\u00a0Brooklyn to West. This headboard is absolutely gorgeous, so understandably her pieces fly off the shelf. No worries she takes custom orders on her headboards and tables. This past summer Ariele finished &#8220;The Big Table&#8220;, watch the making in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[297,296,277,298,299,23],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if-only","tag-ariele-alasko","tag-brooklyn-to-west","tag-furniture","tag-recycle","tag-table","tag-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-pj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1482,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/if-only\/","url_meta":{"origin":1569,"position":0},"title":"If Only&#8230;","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"September 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at Piadesign, innovator and designer Pia W\u00fcstenberg has been experimenting with a wide range of materials from glass to ceramic to wood to paper. 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