RSTco. furniture is pleased to offer KURUMI: North American Black Walnut that is lightly CHARRED and then prefinished with either hardwax oil or a conversion varnish. We recently created 2 of these KURUMI table tops for reDISTRICT based out of Alexandria, VA. The tops are 30” X 30” X 1-3/4” thick. Learn more about RSTco. furniture and our collaborative design process. KURUMI can also be used for interior wall cladding & millwork – request samples here.
08
Jul
reSAWNTIMBERco. featured on ARCHELLO
Discover the products, stories and building teams behind the projects.
Archello is the only platform that tells multiple stories around projects, from the manufacturer to the architect, making it the richest and the most complete platform for architecture and design.
click on the logo to see archello’s story on reSAWN:
02
Jul
WOODWORKING & “THE ACCIDENTAL DESIGNER”
To some, four years of design school sounds like a long time. But in the story of “The Accidental Designer,” we learned that Tom Sullivan became a successful designer/builder after spending eight years as a shipbuilder’s apprentice.
Shipbuilding is something like woodworking or furniture design on a massive scale. The art and science of shaping enormous timbers into structures that are both attractive and seaworthy requires an understanding of wood and tools—from handheld analog to massive machines—that most furniture designers will never have to grapple with. And while a furniture designer may learn the porosities of various woods to understand how each of them will accept stain and finishing, the shipbuilder must learn these things because if they get it wrong, their creations will sink. The eight years versus four starts to make a lot of sense.
That’s just a taste of what’s on offer. Everything from tool usage to finishing to restoring to the actual woodworking techniques are covered, with new videos popping up all the time. Next time it’s slow at work, or you’re just keen to learn something new and maybe find a new skill to master, check out the channel.
25
Jun
THINGS WE LOVE :: URBAN REMAINS
With their main facility and building artifact museum and gallery located just west of downtown Chicago, urban remains deals exclusively in the reclamation and recycling of american antique architectural artifacts and other oddities found among commercial and industrial buildings or residential structures. Their vast website collection contains over 20,000 meticulously documented and photographed recovered and/or found artifacts found throughout the united states. New acquisitions are added daily to their respective categories found on the homepage. Urban Remains does not deal in new or reproduction building artifacts.
Repurposed american industrial l-shaped stationary sitting bench comprised of solid yellow pine wood residential mortise and tenon sill plate beams – several configurations available
Heavily worn early 20th century american antique industrial freestanding rock hard maple fulton meat parking market wood butcher block table fabricated by john boos & co., effingham, il.
One of several matching late 1930’s american industrial hard to find and highly sought after “pollard brothers” versatile factory locker room benches with original solid maple wood top.
Original and intact vintage american industrial all-welded joint freestanding lightweight factory machine shop table likely fabricated in-house.
All RSTco. furniture is custom built and finished in our woodshop from locally sourced and sustainably harvested wood species. we prefer and specialize in solid wood construction as well as using traditionally joinery wherever possible. we offer a variety of finishes that are both durable and complimentary to the wood. other media in addition to wood are often incorporated into designs such as steel.
Contact us to collaborate on your custom furniture design.
05
Jun
Roughness and Care :: Charred Furniture
With a combination of roughness and care, Kaspar Hamacher chops logs into sections, strips the bark away and places smaller burning logs on top to create legs from the charred remains, creating this unique design for charred furniture.
Given the natural ingredients of both raw timber and burning embers, the results, while clearly of a kind when set next to each other, are nonetheless always unique.
21
May
05
May
MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
Tables and Credenzas from RSTco. Furniture :: modern furniture design techniques and materials mixed with traditional woodworking skill. Images below feature:
1 BLACK WALNUT CONFERENCE TABLE WITH METAL BASE
2 CURLY MAPLE CREDENZA WRAPPED IN SHOU-SUGI-BAN RED OAK – WITH OXIDIZED MAPLE ACCENT STRIPES AND RELIEF HANDLES
3 NETSU SHOU-SUGI-BAN CHARRED TABLE TOP WITH METAL BASE
4 AMERICAN BLACK WALNUT CREDENZA WRAPPED IN WHITE LAQUER
5 BLACK WALNUT CONFERENCE TABLE WITH METAL BASE
18
Apr
White Oak Flooring in Boston Law Firm
CBT specified reSAWN’s STEAMBOAT wide plank character grade white oak flooring throughout this Boston law firm’s offices. STEAMBOAT is part of the RUSTIC MODERN collection which features uniquely prefinished character grade woods for flooring, wall cladding and ceiling cladding.
02
Apr
CHARRED TIMBER HOUSE BY HARUNATSU-ARCH
Charred Japanese cedar clads the exterior of this split-level house in Izumo, Japan, by Kanazawa studio Harunatsu-Arch. The architects chose to clad the exterior with charred Japanese cedar boards, giving the building a blackened textural surface that contrasts with the smooth concrete foundation slab.
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/22/harunatsu-arch-gui-house-japan/
01
Apr
WORK IT:: 19 OFFICE INTERIOR DESIGNS WE LOVE
Recently named to INTERIOR DESIGN magazine’s “Top 100 Giants” list of the top 100 interior design firms, based on design fees, square feet designed, and design staff, CBT’s design for Boston law firm Goulston & Storrs features reSAWN TIMBER co.’s STEAMBOAT wide plank white oak flooring, bringing character and warmth to this space:
CBT’s design got us dreaming about redesigning our office. Here are 20 office interior designs that make us gaga:
