Wood Trends; Organic Comfort

 

These wonderfully creative bird bowls made from weathered wood are part of a strong trend in wood accents for the home.

 

Small furnishings- especially stools, used both for accent and occasional seating as well as a small table or foot rest- are also ways to add the popular wood and hand crafted trend to your home.

Primitive carvings and shapes lend an artistic sculptural influence.  Picasso, Braque and Brancusi all referenced arts of Africa because of the simplifications of forms in their masks and figurative carvings.  As you look at these stools you can see the creativity and interest created in the variations.

 

 

Note the natural forms being allowed to become part of the design from the material itself as seen in this bench, mirror and side tables.   Basketry, in lathe and cane provided another hand-made art to show in oversize and influential ways.

 

 

 

"Live-Edge"- the detail of leaving the edge of the wood after a board is sliced from the tree trunk- is  probably the most popular trend in wood out there.  The bark is peeled here on this table but often it is left as an original detail.  It is usually fragile but the wonderful edge of this table shows the texture left from the bark and the wonderful irregular organic edge.  Consumers want to know where things came from in country as well as material.

 

 

Reclaimed, recycled, and repurposed:

Note all the wood variations, reclaimed wood for shelving, repurposed bark made into vase form and recycled wood used for tabletops from old barn wood. Think also recovering, as in the cherry bark used to recover the circular formed frame of the mirror.