There is a particular feeling that washes over me after a great art fair.
This past weekend was Renegade Craft Fair and we had such a great turnout. So many wonderful people with great stories and ever better expressions when they first opened a box. Everyone was smiling and having a great time. This made me want more.
More. More is the feeling that I get in the days that follow an art fair. I want to share the stuff I built with everyone. To tell the story of where the wood comes from escalates everything. We get our wood from various sources: home or business deconstruction, salvaged pallets, donated tree stumps, invasive species removal, or even the scraps from previous projects. Everything has a story and the goal is to use everything. Our sawdust is even reused (as garden bedding or mushroom substrate, for example). We are proud to recycle bits of Chicago and to rebuild those bits into cool furniture, boxes, or whatever catches our fancy.
If you would like to see these crazy monster box creations come to your town, shoot us an email.
A very big special thanks to the folks at Renegade Craft Fair for a fantastic weekend. I can;t think of a better way to stand around all day talking about my wood.
Over a year ago we started making tables from reclaimed hardwood flooring. The scraps from those tables was about .75″ square. We saved every last usable piece and assembled them into a truly impressive table. This beast is two layers of hardwood flooring scraps cris-crossed together like plywood. There are no straight lines on the edge of the table, it’s all rounded. The little cutout at the far right end is to fit around a pillar. More photos will be posted once it is installed.
