Gagnant du Garden & Gun Magazine Made in the South 2023 - Catégorie Maison
Maple offers an extraordinary range of natural expression, from the warm cream-to-golden tones of Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple to dramatic quilt, curl, burl, flame, and spalted figure. Its fine texture and stability make it especially suited to sculptural work, while its luminous surface allows the wood’s character to shift beautifully with changing light.
Flame Maple carries sweeping curls that glow like moving bands across the surface. Quilted Maple creates a deeply rippled, three-dimensional figure reminiscent of light moving across water, with rounded patterns that seem to rise and recede as the viewing angle changes. Spalted Maple adds another language entirely: pale wood traced with dark, organic zone lines formed through natural fungal activity, giving each piece the character of an abstract drawing or map.
Finished maple can display remarkable chatoyance, depth, and movement. Each bowl in this collection is a one-of-a-kind fine-art object shaped to reveal the individual wood’s figure, from quiet and refined to boldly three-dimensional.
