Israeli designer Hilla Shamia uniquely joins the materials of aluminum and wood in this Wood Casting series. Using a whole tree trunk, Shamia pours molten aluminum directly onto the wood, which burns the surface and darkens the wood. The wood gets cut up lengthwise and put into a mold to form the frame and legs of the piece.
Serie FW, designed and produced by Tommaso Bistacchi and Giovanni Pappalardo, is a family of stools and benches made of felt and wood. They were recently presented in Milan.
Wood Thumb is a small company based in San Francisco that takes reclaimed wood and makes some of the coolest ties we’ve ever seen. They were inspired by an old redwood beam they spotted in a salvage yard and decided to turn throwaway wood into something wearable.
Made from Douglas fir with a screenprinted face, the Primary Clock was designed by London-based David Weatherhead and GOODD for Thorsten van Elten. The circular clock comes in two styles, one with a half circle of color and the other with segmented blocks of color. The half circle style can be hung three different ways displaying the color part either on the bottom, the right side, or at an angle.
Brooklyn designers Evan Dublin and Brian Perisco decided to make some designer weapons. Yes, disguised as art and regular objects, these pieces are actually weapons in disguise to ward off attackers!
Everitt & Schilling Tile is a company that specializes in up-cycled and re-claimed handmade wood wall tiles. They can be used for just about anything from kitchen backsplashes to bathroom wall treatments, and even sculptural wall decor. I just love the skinny horizontal ones.
I see a lot of iPad products, but not a lot like these. Grove’s 3rd generation iPad case is simply gorgeous. Hand-crafted in their Portland workshop, this hard bamboo CNC-milled case has coated with three coats of a natural citrus oil and wax blend and an ultra-suede lining. But the icing on the cake is the felt or leather cover.
Feeling like trees had lost their identity somewhere along the way to being paper, Tale Co., Ltd., decided to bring back the look of trees since paper, is in fact, made from trees. Their Woodpecker notebooks come in five tree versions and feature textured bark covers that have a wooden texture you can feel. The pages have the grain and knots of that particular tree species.
From Belgium-born, Italy-based designer Joeri Reynaert comes the Tuberack shelf / space divider. Tuberack is easy to assemble and made of solid oak. The clever piece uses no screws or glue for assembly but instead is held together with rubber tubes that can also hold your books and magazines.
Yum. These look good enough to eat. But don’t take a lick because they might not taste all that good since they’re made of wood.
Handmade in an edition of 150 by artist Johnny Hermann, these pops are an experiment in nostalgia. We all loved these frozen treats as a kid, so why not have an object that evokes those same emotions and memories surrounding you at all times?
