New Business Table of Contents Offers Customers More Than Meets the Eye
This summer welcomed a new business to Kamm’s Corners that in some ways was decades in the making. Rebecca Scina opened Table of Contents this July filling the storefront at 3810 West 157th Street with a unique mix of home furnishings and original art. While Rebecca is a maker of a variety of different goods, the tables in her shop were the jumping off point for the store. Using reclaimed pieces of quartz, Rebecca fabricates one-of-a-kind end tables on metal bases. Though a pair of tables is usually cut from each stone, the veining and coloration of the quartz means no two are exactly the same.
Rebecca’s method of using reclaimed and salvaged slabs also means that the pieces available in Table of Contents are constantly changing. Aside from her own designs, Rebecca can create custom tables for customers using pieces of stone they may already have or sizing a table to fit a specific space. On the underside of each is an engraved maker’s mark and date of fabrication.
Rebecca’s creativity does not stop with end tables though. Throughout the shop is a collection of other examples of her work including original art, resin jewelry and game sets, and other engraved items like coasters and charcuterie boards that have her own unique spin on them. For example, Rebecca's charcuterie boards are called ‘cheese for two boards’ which include an engraved wood base and quartz insert to provide one surface for cutting cheese and one for holding crackers and other sides.
Rebecca creates pieces like this using an engraving machine right inside her space. Aside from her own designs, she also offers her equipment up to people who already have something in mind but don’t have access to the equipment needed to execute it. If a customer has a design file already or just a rough idea of what they’d like to engrave, Rebecca is open to collaborating with customers to create exactly what they would like in her shop. Aside from the engraver, Rebecca also has a 3D printer that she uses for her own work and custom requests.
Working with technology like this comes naturally to Rebecca because she has a background in IT. Her entrepreneurial spirit, though, is something she attributes in part to her father. As soon as you enter Table of Contents, you will see amidst the home furnishings a book entitled Letters from Joe written by Rebecca herself. The book is a collection of letters that her father, Joe Scina, wrote to Rebecca's mother, Ruth, while serving in the military during the Vietnam War. The book is just a small collection of the letters they wrote to each other during this period. Rebecca plans to release four additional volumes to share the breadth of their love story with readers. Each letter is accompanied with a brief narrative added by Rebecca to give more context to the letter, who her parents were, and what was going on in their life during that time.
One thing from the letters that stuck with Rebecca was her dad’s goal to open his own business someday after returning from war. Joe eventually spent his career working as an engineer for Arcelor Mittal but after his passing in 2025 Rebecca decided to take inspiration from his writings from long ago and open her own venture both to honor her father and build a space to share her creativity. Thus, Table of Contents was born. The name for the store is a play on the fact that she makes end tables that are great accessories to your favorite spot to read, but also because of the books she plans to publish to accompany volume one of Letters from Joe.
Tables of Contents is located at 3810 West 157th Street, Cleveland, OH 44111. Current shop hours are Thursday – Friday 1p.m. – 7p.m. and Saturdays 11a.m. – 3p.m. You can follow Table of Contents on Facebook to stay up to date on new products in the store and find additional information here.
