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The grain of a place c/o ERICKSON WOOD WORKING®

CREATIVE DIRECTION

We travelled to Nevada City, California, to portray EricksonWoodWorking® through the place where its furniture begins to take shape. Between the forest and the traces of gold mining at the Diggins, the photographs follow the people, the materials and life in the workshop.

At EWW®, the work begins with selecting the wood, allowing it the time it needs to dry and studying each board before cutting. The grain guides the composition; the relationship with the body guides the shape of a chair. Each piece finds its individuality in these decisions and bears the imprint of the cabinetmaker and their hands.

The catalogue brings Gary Snyder’s perspective into the project through his poem ‘Among’, reproduced inside the front cover. Meeting him at Kitkitdizze, his home in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, marked a defining moment in the project and deepened our understanding of a radical relationship with nature, rooted in an awareness of belonging to it and attentiveness to its cycles. Seen through this lens, the cracks, knots and variations in the wood reveal themselves in EWW®’s furniture as expressions of a life, its time and its place.

Our journey to Nevada City connects EricksonWoodWorking®’s furniture with the forest, the Diggins and the workshop. Meeting Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze deepened this relationship with nature. The catalogue brings together the photographic story and his poem ‘Among’, linking place, material and craft.

Smoke rising from a chimney above a corrugated roof, surrounded by pine trees.
A person tends a wood-burning stove in a dark interior.
Two people walk through the grass at the edge of a misty forest.
Pale excavated hillsides surrounded by pines at the Diggins.
The hillsides of the Diggins reflected in water.
A weathered wooden building standing in the grass.
Forest treetops in shades of green and blue.
Open view of the Diggins landscape, with pale eroded hills and a pine forest.
Reddish tree trunk and pale foliage among pine trees.
A person rests both hands on the bark of a tree.
Overhead photograph of a craftsman beside a large live-edge wood slab, with the full figure and natural ground visible.
Three people examine a piece of wood outdoors.
A person works beside chair frames in the workshop.
Work inside the workshop seen through a blue window.
Hands tracing a template onto a wooden board.
Detail of a hand working along the grain of a piece of wood at the EricksonWoodWorking® workshop.
A hand holds the frame of a chair under construction.
A hand signs the wood of an Erickson Wood Working piece.
A wooden stool in front of a stone wall.
Detail of a wood and metal joint on the stool.
Detail of the grain and structure of a wooden piece of furniture.
A portrait taken during the journey, beside a wooden facade.

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