Cabinet Makers & Wood Sculptors

Hong Kong-born, Helsinki based artist Didi NG Wing Yin presents a solo show of work titled “Not Just Something,” at Lokal, the Helsinki-based contemporary art gallery. The exhibition is on view through March 29th, 2025.

Master wood turner and artist, Ernst Gamperl, presents an exhibition of new work in the UK titled, “Oak Vessels”, a series of 21 unique objects made from a 310-year old felled tree that was once on the property of Houghton Hall.

British designer Sebastian Cox has built a successful furniture company around the idea of a tightly controlled artisanal production model that cuts out the middleman and allows nature to inform every step of the process.

The interior designer’s very first furniture collection is handcrafted in her home-country of Belgium, and brings furniture to its essence of being a lifelong ‘travelling companion’.

Since winning the LOEWE Craft Prize in 2017, Ernst Gamperl has been pursuing more essential & archaic formats. ‘Tree of Life’ is his once-in-a-lifetime project, as he transforms a huge 230-year-old oak tree into 67 wrought vessels that embody his excellence in woodturning and experimental patinas.

For the next two months, pieces from the MANIERA collection find a new home in De Beir House, an early example of architect’s Huib Hoste’s modernist designs.

With a passion for mobility and desire to challenge branded perception, German designer Florian Borkenhagen deconstructs, transforms and reconstructs everyday objects and provides them with a sophisticated value. TLmag caught up with the designer, whose work straddles the space between art and design.

Jörg Bräuer pursues his poetic and aesthetic quest, focusing on landscapes, architecture and still lifes with a pictorial quality that exposes the finer details with great depth and contrast, revealing the restrained beauty that inhabits the unknown world around us.

German artist Fabian von Spreckelsen artisanal approach to sculpture guides him to create unique and bespoke pieces for Spazio Nobile with a singular identity, using Corten steel and eroded metal.

Czech storyteller and philosopher Petr Kavan invites visitors to look within themselves through his black granite and bronze statues which reflect on esoteric notions of human destiny and existence.

TLmag caught up with Studio Mumbai’s founder Bijoy Jain to talk about his new series of hand-made furniture at MANIERA Gallery, the language of materials and the intrinsic spirit of his design process.

TLmag talks to celebrated French designer Patrick Jouin on using wood as an alternative to plastic and how his endless fascination with nature’s efficiency influences his prolific practice.