SPLIT WOOD

Californian designer and wood craftsman Paul Foeckler’s Split Grain light sculptures meld contemporary aesthetics with the raw beauty of unvarnished wood. “The project began with me taking notice of an ordinary piece of firewood and thinking it too beautiful to burn. The exterior texture and shape had such organic appeal that I started experimenting. I found that different splitting techniques followed by sawing the form into slices enhanced the cross sections and revealed even more incredible formations and imperceptible grain patterns,” says Foeckler, whose works have an organic, minimalist appeal.