Stitched Wood

I love the top image of Robyn Gordon's stitched wood, but I did not want to take it away from the context of her work, from which there is much inspiration to be drawn. Robyn Gordon is an artist, crafts person who creates wooden panels and totems. She is also a magpie who likes to gather and assimilate treasure into her work and to this end she is very experimental with her combinations and treatment of materials.

Jergen Bey at droog

This is log bench by Jurgen Bey he is one of the wonderful designers contributes to droog a dutch design house based in Amsterdam. They have a online magazine which you can see here, enjoy!

Aaron Kramer

Aaron Kramer is an inventor, creator, designer and recycler extraordinaire.

"Trash is the failure of imagination" Aaron Kramer

These are his fantastic cork chairs, created from a large donation of his friends wine drinking souvenirs. Aaron doesn't just recycle, he creates things, by utilizing scrap and discarded materials, that have style, beauty, design and form.

Ernesto Neto

A bliss of design, Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist who creates large installations of large, soft, biomorphic structures that visitors can walk amongst, touch or sometimes sit in. They are generally made of a white stretchy stocking like fabric and filled with Styrofoam although sometimes they are filled with aromatic spices. Photographs by Jacob Langvad Nilsson.

Jonah Takagi II

White oak, a series of surfaces and legs, purposeful, clean and simple design from Jonah Takagi.

Jonah Takagi I

Red Oak stepping stool by Jonah Takagi.

Jon Brooks

Impractical but stunningly beautiful, Jon Brooks, Ladder back chairs.

Oak

Above: 19C Belgian Slanted Sea trunk, Oak

Above: Oak Beams in Sainte-Girons, Monein, France,

Oak, there are approximately 600 species of Oak worldwide, they are native to the northern hemisphere and are both deciduous and evergreen.

The wood of Oak Quercus Robur and Quercus Petraea is very dense and therefore it is strong and hard, whilst also being resistant to insect and fungal attack.

Today it is principally used for the construction of timber framed buildings, beams, staircases, and fine furniture. Historically it has been used to make some of our finest buildings and for the construction of ships.

Oak trees can live for hundreds of years and they support the most diverse flora and fauna of any of our native trees. They have quite rapid growth for the first 80-120 years after 250-350 years, the tree is in decline. Oak trees do not produce acorns for the first 25-40 years.

As oak trees take so long to grow, think about this when you use a fine piece of oak timber.

Try to remember to gather acorns , plant them and make a difference. After 5-7 years you can plant them out in hedges with tree guards, ready for wildlife and future generations.