Le’ Favour Table
Literally 2 years ago I’m sharing a cup of coffee with good friend Jake Favour from Romp Creative and we are talking about coffee tables. That’s the thing about Jake, you don’t sit and discuss the weather or sports.. you talk design. Jake loves design, He loves modernism. The dude really has a passion for it. … Read more
What Could “It” Be…
About two years ago when we moved into what is now the “Old Shop” we inherited a few “TREASURES.” Well, I call them treasures, My partner Don likes to refer to at it as “more crap I have to store.” One of the items was this old upright piano. It moved around the shop for … Read more
Shou-Sugi-Ban – Burnt Sugi Boards
Shou-sugi-ban 焼杉板, or burnt sugi board is a Japanese technique of creating timber cladding that should last over 80 years. Sugi is known as Japanese cedar, Instead of sugi, our wood species are Belinga. Old traditional Japanese houses use shou-sugi-ban for their external timber cladding, although rarely used now (replaced by manmade plastic or composite). … Read more
My Boy Bobbie
So I have decided this year I was going to do a monthly serious of posts on interesting people I have met on my various Social Media Net works. (not to mention I need content). A series like this could only start with one person, my friend Robert Petril. Robert and I “friended … Read more
YELL FIRE!
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin How true that is old Ben Franklin. Who doesn’t have fond memories of sitting by the fire, enjoying the warmth and company of friends? Or maybe your favorite memories by the fire are like mine, sitting in solitude … Read more
