Design + Art + Craft

Bringing life to ideas from products, services & innovation, to areas of interaction, contemplation & play—the space from and in-between is where I work.

The work moves from handmade objects to large-scale environments — furniture, graphics, sculpture, space. Always made to order. Always particular to the brief that started it.

FACES-hand made with reclaimed lumber. Playful modern sculptures, Vancouver BC.
SIT— abstraction in function. Freestanding sculptural furnishing made by hand in Vancouver, Canada.
KOLLAGƎ infused Side-Table from industrial waste, Vancouver BC.

R3 Initiative

The Initiative

The initiative encapsulates the practice where materials and objects are reclaimed, reimagined and reborn. Recycling, upcycling and repurposing has been in my studio DNA from the beginning, and has never compromised nor lessened the quality or successful outcome of any project.

New materials and technologies are used when called for and always work symbiotically and sympathetically with reclaimed material. This emphasis has often revealed unexpected outcomes and at times presented entirely new and exciting avenues of exploration.

Materials

Effectively there are no materials limitations, although in keeping with the R3 spirit, the use of any environmentally sensitive materials is kept to a minimum if used at all.

Salvatore — sculpture constructed from reclaimed wood products by Giles Runeckles.

"The work exists somewhere between design and fine art, between the domestic and the monumental. That's not a problem. It's the point."