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The Wood Show
WALRUS
3408 Cambie Street, Vancouver, Canada
Our friends at walrus are celebrating the work or 5 inspiring Canadian wood designers, and Brent is proud to be one of them. Each designer has carefully selected and handcrafted pieces in limited quantity for the show. The show will be up through the summer but some of the pieces are limited editions, so if you want to see them all don’t wait.
More InsightsHikae Soe Arrangement
In the discipline of Japanese flower arrangement, shin is said to represent ‘heaven’ and usually the longest part of the work. Soe, the ‘earth,’ reaches around two-thirds of the shin. Hikae is linked to ‘human,’ which is half of the soe. I have translated this mathematical precision and philosophical appreciation into my Ikebana’s lineal solid wood tables and seating. According to certain rules that aim to achieve perfect harmony, beauty and balance, the watery grain patterns, precisely placed knots and graceful shadow lines convey the poetry or nature.
View FurniturePale Shadows
Through the use of fir to create Pale Shadows, I feel I am returning to a primarily antiquated building material. With these large-scale, stacked posts, I wanted to reintroduce the material back into the landscape – but this time as bold arboreal spires. Just as I am exploring the wood in my own way, I hope people make their own connections to and imaginings from Pale Shadows, and extract and create their own stories from it.
View ArtworkBaumkuchen
Tokyo, Japan
We were asked to create a feature wall based on our Alder Series for this 60-seat café in Tokyo, Japan. The resulting piece is close to 120 square feet of Alder millwork, which seamlessly blends into the architecture of this small but beautiful space.
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