001 - Firestool

Description

Sculpted from a single piece of ancient Red Cedar this simple stool is a functional piece for resting one’s feet or sitting while lighting the fireplace. Walnut bowties were inlaid into the end grain to stabilize the chunk as it dried – preventing it from splitting into smaller pieces. The piece of Cedar, from a tree likely 1,000+ years old, was a collected from a clear-cut at the base of Edinburgh Mountain near Port Renfrew, BC, where some of the oldest and largest Red Cedar and Douglas Fir dominated forests in the world still exist and are still harvested to be sold and replaced with tree-farms.

Dimensions

16" L  X  10" W  X  10" T

Materials

Western Red Cedar

Black Walnut