For the Calgary style studio Hinterland, raw components are every thing. Sustainably-certified timber and salvaged wood play a central role in Hinterland’s impressive range of “functional art,” which is to say, unusually artful objects that come about to be supremely functional as effectively. Notable amongst them is the Small Gem Side Table collection of asymmetrical occasional tables which Hinterland characterizes as “sculpture for indoors or out,” and who would argue?Discarded cedar logs have been hand-shaped into faceted gem-like profiles that expose the intrinsic beauty of the wood grain, even though making certain that every single table remains a unique work of art. Each and every table’s top surface is finished with a range of lustrous materials—black granite, brass, marble, steel, and mirror—providing a sleek and polished counterpoint to the tables’ primitive, organic types. Consistent with Hinterland’s ethos of blurring indoor/outdoor lines, Small Gem Side Tables have been crafted to segue from indoors to outdoors, exactly where cedar is primed to climate naturally, acquiring its silvery, but no much less desirable, finish.
