Winner!

Congratulations to the winner fo the Earth Vessel Sink Valued at $1900!

Rosina Ho of WKH Services, an interior design firm in  Hawaii!

Rosina is on the left holding the prize, pictured with Alison Bjorkman of Puffin Design.ca. 

We are so pleased Rosina won the prize! The draw was done at 4:00 pm on Trade Day at IDSWest (the Interior Design Show in Vancouver). Rosina and her daughter came back to the booth the next day to check out who won and we are sure her whoop of surprise and delight was heard throughout the entire show! It was wonderful to meet Rosina she is a terrific lady!

Industrial Chic Bistro Table

One of the hottest genres in current furniture design is "oil punk"... also called "industrial chic", it is my favorite design aesthetic. Starting out life as a very well made washing maching... high tech in the early 1900s, I must admit that all I could see was the perfect base for a bistro table. 

It took quite a bit of cleaning to get over a century of grunge off of the metal parts. In fact, I dismantled the mechanical parts to the smallest piece, then wire brushed and scraped using an organice de-greaser. Once cleaned up and air dried, every part was carefully coated with double boinled linseed oil and wiped dry. 

For the top, I have been working on a new "ultra-white" concrete that, amongst other things, has marble dust in it. Marble dust is a by-product of processing marble slabs for building facades and counter tops. University research in cement rheology indicates that adding 5% marble dust actually makes the end product 7% denser. It also makes it gorgeous. For added visual effect, I added some veins on the surface and a rough rock effect on the inch and a half thick edge. The actual top is only 3/4 inch thick, only the edge is dropped down to the full thickness. 

Enough of the technical stuff... judge for yourself it this isn't the coolest bistro table ever. 

One of a kind $3500