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Crowe River Studio is a custom woodworking, design and art studio and alternative building project, located in a large converted barn on a wooded acreage near Havelock, Ontario. We also work in the GTA. The founder, Richard Watts, is an experienced designer, renovator, and builder, as well as a sculptor and environmental installation artist, with a unique style that combines rustic reclaimed materials with custom woodworking and sculptural elements. Designs often incorporate a contrast between contemporary modernism and historical elements, and reflect a client's personality and history. For example, a project for the Avant Derm Clinic in the Toronto Distillery District incorporated reclaimed 300-year-old Douglas Fir, glass and handmade steel elements, blast furnace doors, movable walls, etc. Future series include engraving drawings into family tables, or the patterns insects carve into trees filled with resin. We also do more conventional woodworking and renovations, and are affiliated with IATSE 873 movie set fabrication, in Toronto.
I am specialized in several fields but also a generalist. I often think outside the box. I am interested in how different disciplines interrelate, to create the possibilities of new forms. This is probably why I have not had simply one career in one field. I find that spaces and objects can express concepts, ideas, and feelings that tell stories and reflect a client's personality. I suppose my aesthetic philosophy is an extension of the Arts and Crafts William Morris movement in the 19th century, that sought to maintain artisanal ways of making, in the face of the Industrial Revolution. I believe that beautiful and harmonious environments with a connection to natural processes and materials, enrich our lives, help us work better, help us think differently, and maintain local culture and history in the face of the anonymity and sameness of globalization.
My grandfather was a modern Mennonite farmer and rancher and knew many things...my father was a minister, academic. So I grew up working on a Kansas farm but also went to university for 10 years in various arts and humanities including graduate studies. However, I found that having my own business suited me better than fitting into academic systems, and for reasons described above, I enjoy designing and making interesting things or spaces with real materials that serve a function and tell (hopefully) a poetic story.
If you are simply looking for the lowest price, with the least expensive materials, and without artisanal craftsmanship, design, and attention to detail, you probably shouldn't because I'm not very good at that.
Many tradespeople and technicians are good at what they do, but most don't also have good design skills and an artistic sensitivity. So they don't pay a lot of attention to how the environments they create, feel aesthetically, and even whether they function well or not, for a particular client's needs.
Somewhat, in that online is useful to exchange drawings and information. But it doesn't result in personalized design for personalized objects and spaces. It makes every space a CAD space and the objects in the space simply pleasing online forms...with no texture, personality, or character. It's useful to see layout and a 3-d rendering of a space and how various objects will fit into it but it makes every space a mass-produced CAD space...so it's then difficult to create something with character and story, with this method.
I am triple vaccinnated, will get Booster soon. The industry I work in, the film union/guilds (IATSE 873) had the strictest Covid protocols of anywhere--that's why it kept running during the pandemic when everything else shut down, and had the lowest Covid rates. Beyond a certain level of precautions, however, there is only so much you can do, without running your everyday life through an autoclave. If a client is worried and wants me to wear a mask, I can do that.
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The average rating for Bark Bespoke Furniture Specialists is 4.84, based on 1,823 reviews.
