❋ Offcuts Vase
❋ Ray Lamp
❋ Archipelago Lamp
❋Echinoidea Lamp
❋ Multi-texture Candleholder
❋ Embrace Tables
Wood
Offcuts Vase
Only using found scraps from a communal offcuts bin at the wood shop, create a vase that combines a variety of types of woods. Working with these discarded pieces of multiple types of wood gives them a new life and accentuates their natural beauty in a large, complete form. The form follows intuition to the most eye-catching parts of the wood grain stand out.
2025
22” x 8” x 8”
Maple, Cherry, Bass, Birch, Oak, Ash, Pine, wood glue, beeswax polish
Ray Lamp
The Ray lamp was inspired by the layers in the wood more than anything else. It’s an experiment with how to carve 12 different pieces of plywood and have them come together to create one cohesive object. With every piece carved was inspired by wanting to try a new method of shaping for the next. Each piece was built on the knowledge and experience of carving the ones before.
2024
12” x 7” x 7”
3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood, beeswax polish, fish glue, LED light
Archipelago Lamp
The Archipelago Lamp began with the concept to have the light holes sporadically placed across the top plywood surface, and then carve the wood to connect them making peaks and valleys. The organic method of shaping the wood created an archipelago of islands.
2024
12” x 7” x 4”
3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood, fish glue, beeswax polish, LED strip
The shape originates from a sea urchin (Latin name echinoidea) found on the shore of Burin, Newfoundland.
The sea urchin was examined: its purpose, its form, its colour, its strength.
Time spent with the object inspired the form of the lamp.
Echinoidea Lamp
The final product is a reflection of care:
an object found while beach combing with my mom in a town she lived in during her 20s
hours spent looking at, feeling and learning about sea urchins
holding the sea urchin, memorizing how each bump feels on my fingers
doing form and material explorations to find what would work
carving the wood, revealing plywood layers and allowing the light to pass through
finishing touches and a sendoff into the world
2023
5” x 5” x 6”
3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood, fish glue, beeswax polish, LED circut
*made with offcuts from the Embrace Tables
Multi-texture Candleholder
The Multi-texture candle holder is made from two pieces of scrap baltic birch plywood. The top is carved in a hexagonal node pattern and the base is done in a square node pattern. The candlelight flicker excentuates the texture and plywood layers.
2023
5” x 4” x 4”
3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood, fish glue, beeswax polish
*made with offcuts from the Embrace Tables
Embrace Tables
The EmbracesTables are an exploration of form and gesture. Inspired by the human body, Anna and Syd came together to create a table that expresses the merging, embracing and meeting of two bodies.
Individually, the table best functions as a side table. Its curvy top makes it a unique piece of furniture for any living space. It breaks the tradition of a square or rectangular shape offering the space with a round and playful energy. Only being three pieces that interlock, the table is collapsible, making it an easy piece of furniture to be stored and moved.
As a pair, the tables merge around their curves, doubling in surface area and bringing them into a more conventional rectangular shape. In this configuration the tables can work as a coffee table when needed for more space.
The tables are great alone, but even better together.
2022
42” x 18” x 21”
3/4 inch Baltic Birch Plywood, water-based varnish.
Made in collaboration with Sydney McManus
