Bow Wave

Robert Graham (Black Woodpecker Studio)

Bow Wave  2025

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American White Ash  (Fraxinus Americana) /Wenger Wood (Millettia Laurentii)

Finish: Osmo White Tilt 

Construction: Steam bending and lamination 

Influence: Joseph Walsh

980mm W x 760mm H x 200mm D (wall hung)

$2,900

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Art or furniture? Shaped from American White Ash and Wenge Wood.  Light and Strong as good a hull. Its form is called Bow Wave and the name fits.

The top runs straight and sure like a yacht. Beneath it the Steam bent Ash sweeps forward in long lean curved lines that carry the sense of a bow cutting hard though rising water.

The curves are not loud they move with the quiet force of something built to meet the sea they rise and fall like waves lifting under the hull each piece of Ash holding the memory of motion