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Showing posts with label Lovgren and daughter. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The shape of things...

Every few months we take some time to look around and see interesting shapes and they way we can use them in our work. From art pottery to 17th century punch bowls. This sounds like a lot of divergent shapes. This art pottery was very interesting in it's form. Now, in order to simplify it for our purposes, the handle became solid and the deep ribbing wouldn't translate very well into wood, but here is one of the inspiration pieces: . In this punch bowl it was the outline that was so appealing: Finally, here is a lidded bowl from ages ago. It's amazing to look through the ages as more things change the more things stay the same. This vessel is from the 2nd or 3rd century all are courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. It is an incredible museum and if you ever have the chance to go there - do. . This is the final lidded box. It is larger than a shaving bowl and is more of an object d'art. There is a well inside but the diameter is 8 inches across. The cross current grain of the mahogany reminds us of the waves in the ocean whether it might be a rip current or waves crashing in to the beach. If you would like to take this home or see more of our work, please visit our Etsy Shop, Lovgren & Daughter.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Waves of Grain

We have new decorative bowl made of Mahogany. We are still putting the final coats of finish on it now. . We took some of the musical instrument grade mahogany and laminated it together. Laminating is actually when you glue boards together to make a thickness that suits your needs. In this case, we alternated the grain patterns so that you can see them flow cross currently as your eye travels up the bowl. . This bowl started out as a shave bowl, it was rather large for a shave bowl but in cutting it down we would have lost the gentle form that compliments the grain. . We hope you like it as much as we do. It will be available in our Etsy shop: Lovgren & Daughter in a few days.