.GRAIN, TAVOLE DA SURF ECOSOSTENIBILI

Grain Surfboards is an American company that manufactures custom and originally designed hollow wooden surfboards. The surfboards are made primarily from Northern White Cedar, with some Western Red Cedar added for color accent.

The company was founded in 2005 in York, Maine. Claiming boat building influences, Grain describes its first boards as having caulked seams and bronze fastenings like a wooden ship. Construction methods were adopted from common kayak and surfboard building techniques until a lighter board requiring fewer non-renewable resources was developed.

New designs are drawn using 3D cad software. From the 3D design, two-dimensional flat sections are created to become the precision-cut frames and keel. Then bookmatched wood is selected that blends together to form a unique pattern on the deck and bottom of the board. The keel and frames are then drilled with holes to further reduce the weight. The constructed frames and keel define the overall shape and size of the board.

www.grainsurfboard.com

.TOM RAFFIELD, LAMPS PRODUCER

Handcrafted in his studios in Cornwall, England, the range of contemporary lighting and furniture Tom Raffield now creates is based on beauty, integrity and a desire to create unique, high-specification products that will be cherished by their owners.

Inspired by the forms of nature, he design and make each item by hand in his woodland workshop, combineing sustainable design with the low-energy process of steam bending to create timeless pieces.

www.tomraffield.com

.MAX LAMB, A MODERN ARTISAN

Furniture designer Max Lamb talking about the importance and power of handmade craftsmanship in the digital age.

M.Lamb is a London based furniture designer by trade, but he equally considers himself a furniture maker. And almost everything he designs he crafts by hand. This approach has formed his signature style, which explores everything involved in the process of turning raw materials into functional objects.

Talking about himself he says "I had lots of ideas for objects I’d like to make, but had no money to pay other people to produce them", so he took the cheaper option: to make them himself.

He assert that more people take notice and acknoledge the beauty in the handmade, and ther's a different quality to handmade objects.

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