In march of 08, a large fire burned the roof and top floor of the 100 year old Brooklyn building that is home of our concrete manufacture. Although no one was hurt, and the ground floor shop came through relatively unscathed, there was some damage and property was lost.
During the roof's reconstruction, workers cut out and carted through the shop these huge charred beams with a thick, unique texture. They decided to take this remainder of a destructive event and turn it into something positive. Reinventing the burned wood as polished concrete surfaces for our furniture. Using rubber, they created a mold from the most interesting of these beams, and the Burn Series was born.
They blackened concrete with the charred texture as the base for the burn lamps, which they coupled with a mahogany and poplar shade to bring the wood together with light.
