Four cool wooden (and wood-inspired) items that go curiously against the grain.
Have a Boy Scout moment and head to nature (or just the park) with an original Audubon Bird Call, made of birchwood and zinc by the same Rhode Island company that created it in 1951. Hours of bird-attracting fun.
Just the thing for the modernist handyman (or -woman): A smooth, dark wooden tape measure from Rockett St. George.
Takumi Shimamura's exquisitely crafted briefcase made of Japanese cedar with leather handles is available in light or dark wood.
It's just a prototype now (look for it to be available by fall), but we're ready to pounce on this snazzy digital point-and-shoot developed by Olympus. It uses a new technology that morphs scrap wood into a material that's harder than plastic -- the result is as stylish as it is green.
written on Friday Jul 6, 2007
whistle,
camera,
wood.
