Piece / projectOne brief. Two sides.
A commissioned board with a walnut chopping face, a contrasting serving face, and an open-ended visual brief.
Boards & crafted goods • Individual piece
A patterned oak trivet, shown in the customer photograph returned after purchase.
The August 2020 caption describes a customer buying the trivet and sending photographs of it at home. This is a different object from the cutting boards, despite their shared materials.
I designed and built this trivet from quarter-sawn oak with contrasting wood in a circular pattern. The customer later sent back photos of it being used under a plant, which is the view I like most from this project. It confirms that the piece left the bench and became part of someone else’s room. The materials overlap with some of the cutting boards, but the size, circular layout, and job are different.
Trivet fabrication: Michael Pytlowany. In-use photograph supplied by the customer, Robert Lawson; obtain permission before public release.
Mike's Functional Artistry archive
2020-08-22