This bedside table is my first serious funiture design/making project. It's made for my first assignment when I was a graduate student at School of America Crafts, RIT. It incoperated three basic woodworking joinaries: half lap, cross lap and bridle.

The design started from the considerations of function: 

You could easily pick up where you left last night if you put your book this way; and

You won't knock over your water in the morning if you put your cup that way.