Imagine giving a gift that will be remembered long after the wrapping paper has been thrown away and talked about for years. A Vermont Experience is a gift that truly suprises, delights and excites the recipient. Whether it’s watching the sun rise from a hot air balloon, learning to fly fish on a beautiful summer evening, or feeling the adrenaline rush of snowmobiling through the woods of Vermont, your fiance, family, friends, wedding party, guests will be forever grateful for the lifelong memories you helped them create.

I am thrilled to introduce you to our first Vermont Experience, The Naked Table Project. It is truly one of Vermont’s most unique experiences that you literally get to take home with you.

The Naked Table is “naked” of ego, a table that is symbolic of community
and is at the same time a product of the local environment.

Started in 2009 by furniture designer Charles Shackleton, The Naked Table Project brings people together by making tables by hand. The project invites groups of about 15 participants to local workshops to make a plain, simple, contemporary family table. Participants spend their first day assembling, smoothing, and finishing their tables with the help of furniture makers. They then visit the local woods with a professional forester to see the actual source of the lumber and to identify a replacement seedling tree. Each workshop culminates by participants and guests gathering around the completed tables, joined to make one long 75-foot table, for a celebratory, locally grown and prepared feast. Tables are then transported to their life in the participants’ home or chosen location.

“The table’s story belongs to those who use the table to prepare food, eat, gather, and work.
It is where stories are told. The table becomes an icon of the family, the home, and community,
and a symbol of their connection to the place and the land.” Charles Shackleton

Naked Table workshops have since taken place with the towns of Woodstock, Vermont and Hanover, New Hampshire, Abbeyleix, Ireland, schools in Vermont and Connecticut, as a couple’s Valentine’s retreat, and as a corporate teambuilding experience. The project has been featured in The Boston Globe, Business Week, and The Irish Times, among others.

Commission your own workshop for you and your fiance, family and friends or wedding party. What an incredible gift and memorable Vermont experience that you will take home with you and share with family and friends for years to come.

For more information contact ShackletonThomas.