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A Luxury Custom Design Billiard Table
Alcocks custom design expertise attracts clients looking for a billiard table of unusual or original design. During 2024 the company was engaged to create a truly visionary custom design table, with instructions that the main design features should include: • Huge richly polished cushion rails with caps nearly three times the width of a conventional rail• […]
Trawalla Billiard Room
Trawalla, a heritage listed two storey Italianate stuccoed brick mansion at 22 Lascelles Avenue Toorak, contains a very fine billiard room at the centre of the house featuring a soaring clerestory roof, elegant proportions, a marble mantlepiece and delicate plasterwork decoration. The centrepiece of the room is an antique Alcocks Squatters Favourite full-size billiard table […]
40 years at Alcocks for Tim Lowe
Alcocks marks 40 years since master craftsman Tim Lowe joined the company as an apprentice on February 4th 1981. While learning the skills of a billiard table maker and mechanic including woodworking, billiard table design, manufacture and finishing, in 1982 Tim began creating a miniature (36″ by 18″) Duke of Edinburgh billiard table as an […]