City Lights / Vancouver

For immediate release: October 8, 2010

Salt Spring Woodworks at IDS WEST October 14-17 , Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre

Salt Spring Woodworks is coming to Vancouver's Interior Design Show West in the new Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre from October 14 - 17. Please join us in the lounge to see "City Lights" - an exhibition of illuminated installations and lanterns by Vancouver designer/ artists, Brent Comber, Judson Beaumont and Peter Pierobon.

These three distinctly different artists are leaders in a dynamic cultural movement catching fire in New York, London and Tokyo.  They are creators who have punched from craft through to art; moving from reproduction and rustic furniture to art studio furniture and functional sculpture. Just like the city where they live, their work defines a distinctive 'Vancouver Style' that is fresh, original, playful and sophisticated; with conscientiousness about the sustainability of materials, such as value- added wood, particularly welcome in a province whose main economy is forestry. 

Brent Comber's illuminated "Shattered Spheres" and "Shattered Disc" are inspired by the 2006 storm that left Stanley Park with tragic swathes of downed ancient trees. They comprise some of the cedar shards from the salvage, doubly creating artistic order out of the shambles and reminding us of the forces and forests that surround us.

Peter Pierobon's exploration into new technologies of lighting produced the elegant and enticing "Plumb" (hanging) and  "Weir"  (standing), which are eight foot tall, low voltage lanterns which cast flickering, crosshatched light, transmitting the colours of red and yellow cedar.

Judson Beaumont has followed on his whacky 'Squiddy' tables and benches with the eight foot tall Black and White 'Tall Squiddy Guards' who stand guard in the dark and illuminate with weird and squiggly lights and shadows.

Come to IDS WEST and see the range, originality and quality of Vancouver's studio furniture designers. October 14 - 17 - in Vancouver.  If you miss it in Vancouver, you’ll just have to visit beautiful Salt Spring Island to experience Vancouver’s hottest new art industry.