Ben Butler

 

 Ben Butler creates intense textures and forms from various types of woods; cedar, poplar, plywood, etc. to create large scale sculptures, that can only be a great inspiration to a furniture maker. His innovative solutions for the representation of rhythm and order are breathtaking and wonderful.

Bruno Walpoth

 

 

Amazingly hauntingly beautiful sculptures by Italian artist Bruno Walpoth.
Bruno Walpoth uses Lime and walnut wood, carves it with simple tools and creates incredible life like figures. (thank you)

Eliza Strozyk, Wooden Carpet

Elize Strozyk's wooden rugs/ carpets/flooring.

"The potential of the "wooden carpet" is its flexibility. It can be rolled up and transported easily. The carpet's ability to move implements a potential of change. It can be laid flat on the ground, but also sculptured in a dramatic way, or shaped up the wall" Elize Strozyk

Eliza Strozyk

Redefining our ideas about what wood is its texture its weight and qualities, Eliza Strozky has reinvented this amazingly versatile material further into a textile formed of repeated geometric shapes. "Wooden Textiles" is a material that is half wood- half textile, between hard and soft, challenging what can be expected from a material or category. It looks and smells familiar but feels strange, as it is able to move and form in unexpected ways.

Andrea Brugi

Chopping boards and clothes rails, furniture? Yes they are furniture, the functional objects of our daily lives. When they are also beautifully and sympathetically rendered as Andrea Brugi's works, then they are stunning and life enhancing . . . that is design! (many thanks)

Kaspar Hamacher

Kasper Hamacher has created these elegant tall stools by doing a controlled burn to excavate the core and leave four legs, in a series called 'ausgebrannt', Kasper has a wonderful portfolio of design projects, I especially admire his shelves, go and explore.

Rena Dumas Architecture Studio

Rena Dumas Architecture Studio designed the interior for the new Parisian Hermes store. The design consists of three nest forms, creating an elegant and powerful division of space.

Kia Linke I

Sandblasting wood creates amazing effects and has incredible potential, these works are by the innovative designer Kai Linke's 'Blasted Familii' series.

Rosalie Gascoigne II

Wood compositions from New Zealand artist Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-1999) This artists textures, combinations and use of materials would be great inspiration for furniture design, have a look at her portfolio.

Elizabeth Shaw

Elizabeth Shaw is a furniture maker from Philadelphia who uses the unique quality of each piece of wood to enhance her furniture design. I wish I could find more of her beautiful work. Thank you Dom.

John Houshman

John Houshman's works play on the contrast between highly finished and raw finished wood that retains all the character of the tree from whence it came.

Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley

Love these soft seat scoops like the insides of bean pods. They are the work of Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley who have been collaboratively designing and making furniture and other functional woodwork for over twenty years.

Wood, Light and Fire

Utilizing scrap wood from a building site architects Haugen/ Zohar constructed this, beautiful vision of heat and light, an the outdoor fireplace. Inspired by Norwegian turf huts, it is made from naturally impregnated core of pine and spaced with oak separators. It is in a public park for fires, playing and storytelling.

"In our work we aim to question relationships between architecture, function and art, by integrating the disciplines of landscape- architecture and sculpture'' Marit Justine Haugen and Dan Zohar.

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Cha Jongrye

Cha Jongrye is a Korean artist and sculptors works explore the passage of time and the elements erosion of the land. I believe these are sandblasted into shape, but am not entirely sure. I do love the textures and strangeness of these wonderful pieces.

Gyongy Lacky

Gyongy Lacky is an artist and sculptor who was originally from Hungary, but resettled in America as a child, her works are exhibited internationally. The combination of organic and man made materials and the space and solidity of the work is very interesting and inspiring.