On the casting of brass
Why the house lays every rod by hand, and why no two panels will ever repeat.
A brass panel can be pressed. The tooling exists, the cost is trivial at volume, and from three metres the result is difficult to fault. We do not press them.
Each rod on the Weave sideboard is laid into the mould by hand before the pour. The hand that lays them is not steady in the way a die is steady, and that is the point: the diagonal drifts, the intervals open and close, and the panel acquires a rhythm no press can be programmed to produce.
The consequence is that the doors of one sideboard cannot be swapped onto another. Every panel is a record of a particular afternoon. We think that is the difference between an object that is manufactured and an object that is made.
It also means we cannot scale this. That is not a limitation we are working to solve.
