‘Blushing Bar’, by Chan + Eayrs, Sebastian Cox and American Hardwood Export Council
Chan and Eayrs, Cox and the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) collaborated on the largest piece in this year’s Wallpaper* Handmade show in Milan, the ‘Blushing Bar’. And while timber is the main protagonist in this project, too, there’s plenty in its design to make the structure really stand out within the workshop – from the unusual and perfectly executed design, to the species itself (American red oak, which is largely unknown in Europe), and the methods applied (as hinted by the strange pinky red ink stains on the floor and walls around us).
‘We wanted to challenge the idea of the linear bar that acts as a boundary between the bartender and the public, and also its materiality,’ says Chan. ‘So we started with an open mind and wanted to see what the conversations with Seb led to. Our approach was informed by our first meeting with him and David [Venables, AHEC’s European director], who told us about the properties of red oak. We always like to integrate making techniques into our design process.’
This story is from the August 2019 edition of Wallpaper.
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