Ûrthwûrks Furniture

Every time I drive past it on Main & 11th, and every time my girlfriend talks about “Joshua-chan” or Josh Olsen, whom she has known since she was a baby, I am reminded about the work I did for Ping’s Cafe.  I don’t go there often enough but it reminds me of the first time [...]

A good friend of ours, Laurent Munier visited our studio in December with his cool little flip camera. He wanted to show us what we could do with a small video camera.  A little peak of what we do at our humble abode!  Here we work on the finishing touches of Rodney Graham’s Possible Abstractions.

Written by Jonathan Cruz at Jonathan Cruz Photography. A good friend of mine, Tony Millares III, owns an exceptional architectural woodworking firm called Urthwurks Furniture Inc. Starting in Brooklyn, NY, he moved his shop to Vancouver in 2001 and has designed and built for Jasper Johns, Francesco Clemente, Bette Midler, ALIFE NYC and the list [...]

We honestly weren’t sure if we could do it in time for the show.  It was hours and hours of sanding corian,  then even more hours of spraying the pieces, and then finally assembling everything together. Our shop ran 24 hours for the last few weeks and we all rarely saw our better halves. The [...]