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"A table made from reclaimed wood is supersexy and rugged." -HGTV host Carter Oosterhouse
We agree.
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Now through November 25th, enjoy reduced prices on ALL furniture at Urban Hardwoods!
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We're proud of our work, so we enjoy taking new pictures of pieces all the time! Come share the fun with us.
urbanhardwoods on http://instagram.com/
Post Date: 10/18/2012
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Next time it rains in Seattle, enjoy 15% off all coffee tables at all three Urban Hardwoods locations!
SAN FRANCISCO STORE
434 Post St. in Union Square
(between Mason & Powell)
San Francisco, CA 94102
415 397 9663 T
LOS ANGELES STORE
741 N. La Cienega Blvd.
(La Cienega Design Quarter)
West Hollywood, CA 90069
424 204 9802 T
SEATTLE STORE
2101 First Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
206 443 8099 T
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Call or visit any of our three locations for details.
Post Date: 09/03/2012
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For our third quarterly exhibition showcasing Bay Area Artists, Urban Hardwoods, in collaboration with Hang Art, is hosting a 90 day exhibition that started August 5th, of Bay Area artist Kelly DeFayette.
Opening reception will be held on Thursday August 30th from 6 to 9pm. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Walking the fine line between painting and sculpture, Kelly DeFayette's polygons are a study of color, object, and space. The individual, multiple, and orchestrated groupings of carefully crafted panels challenge the conventional rectilinear painting form.
Click the image below to RSVP to the opening reception.
Post Date: 08/15/2012
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Looking for the perfect rug to go with your Urban Hardwoods table? Peace Industry is having a 25% off Sale on all rugs in stock this weekend, August 18th and 19th. Visit their new location at 2235 Mission Street in San Francisco's Mission District or contact for more information!
2235 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.255.9940
http://www.peaceindustry.com/
Post Date: 08/15/2012
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For our third quarterly exhibition showcasing Bay Area Artists, Urban Hardwoods, in collaboration with Hang Art, is hosting a 90 day exhibition starting August 5th, of Bay Area artist Kelly DeFayette.
Walking the fine line between painting and sculpture, Kelly DeFayette's polygons are a study of color, object, and space. The individual, multiple, and orchestrated groupings of carefully crafted panels challenge the conventional rectilinear painting form.
Opening details to follow! Click the image below to join the event on facebook.
Post Date: 08/06/2012
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At Urban Hardwoods, each piece of wood salvage will become its own unique piece of furniture. Our skilled craftsmen allow the characteristics of the material to guide them in the direction of the fitting final product, and then execute its assembly with care, precision and great attention to detail.
Pictured: elm dining table no. 2372
For more information please contact Urban Hardwoods Los Angeles
741 N La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
424.204.9802
Post Date: 08/02/2012
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As unique and refined as Urban Hardwoods furniture, Laura Yeats' designs are available in all three of our store locations.
Pictured: Sycamore bowl, for more information please contact our LA showroom at 424.204.9802
Post Date: 07/23/2012
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The salvaged wood side table no. 0114 is featured in the July/August issue of Dwell Magazine. Click the image below to go to the product page. Thanks Dwell!
Excerpt from the article - "Crafted from reclaimed timbers, this bedside stand need not be relegated to the bedroom. It could work as a sculptural piece anywhere." Dwell July / August 2012
Post Date: 07/14/2012
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Thank you everyone that came to our San Francisco store opening making it such a wonderful and memorable evening! Click the image below to like us on facebook and get invites to upcoming events.
Post Date: 07/14/2012
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Urban Hardwoods has moved its Bay Area showroom to the heart of San Francisco’s Union Square retail district.
Join us Thursday July 12th to celebrate our new location, view our newest collection of solid wood tables and home furnishings from OCHRE and Peace Industry, and have an opportunity to meet and talk with local artist, Sarah Winkler.
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Click the image below to RSVP.
Post Date: 07/05/2012
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This black leather sofa with white oak frame by the renowned Danish designer Hans Wegner has just arrived at our Los Angeles store. Paired in this picture with the maple coffee table no. 2377 and the burnt block side tables no. 2255.
Contact the Urban Hardwoods in Los Angeles at (424) 204-9802 or email LA@urbanhardwoods.com for pricing and details.
Post Date: 06/30/2012
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Give your room a modern feel by combining our sleek salvaged wood and steel designs with handmade rugs by Peace Industry.
Urban Hardwoods red elm and steel coffee table no. 2187
Peace Industry 4' x 6' "Spill" rug
These and other selections available for purchase at our San Francisco showroom
For more information, call or visit us at 415.397.9663
434 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
View other Peace Industry rug styles:
http://www.peaceindustry.com/
Post Date: 06/18/2012
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Find the perfect accents to your new wood furniture with objects and artwork from NOHO Modern. Come into our Los Angeles showroom to see a selection of finishing touches like this vintage vessel, or visit NOHO Modern's website for even more options.
Urban Hardwoods Los Angeles
741 N La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
424.204.9802
NOHO Modern
http://nohomodern.com/
Post Date: 06/15/2012
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The perfect complement to your one-of-a-kind walnut slab dining table from Urban Hardwoods is now available through our San Francisco store. London-based Ochre's full line of glass and steel chandeliers are on display and available for purchase at the new Urban Hardwoods store in Union Square, San Francisco.
Contact the San Francisco store at (415) 397-9663 or email SF@urbanhardwoods.com for more information.
Click the image below to view Ochre's online catalogue.
Post Date: 06/10/2012
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Urban Hardwoods is now offering another great base design to pair with your new wood tabletop. The steel X base is available in black or white finish, as are all of our steel base options, so you can find the perfect fit for your home.
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Pair your new wood furniture with classics like this "Regent" Sofa, one of many vintage finds offered through NOHO Modern.
Call or visit Urban Hardwoods Los Angeles, conveniently located in the heart of the La Cienega Design Quarter, for details.
424.204.9802
741 N La Cienega Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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Artist Sarah Winkler utilizes painting and collage in her works and draws inspiration from the environment to create abstracts that provide a stunning complement to the natural forms of Urban Hardwoods furniture.
OBSIDIAN SUMMIT by Sarah Winkler
30" x 48" collage, acrylic on canvas
available for viewing and purchase at Urban Hardwoods San Francisco
434 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.397.9663
We are pleased to display a diverse selection of Sarah Winkler's work through both our San Francisco and Los Angeles locations.
Post Date: 06/01/2012
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Urban Hardwoods introduces the folded blackened steel "Origami" base to combine with our solid wood dining tables. Choose your tabletop, choose your base, and enjoy your dinners at a work of art.
Post Date: 05/27/2012
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The perfect complement to your one-of-a-kind walnut slab dining table from Urban Hardwoods is now available through our San Francisco store. London-based Ochre's full line of glass and steel chandeliers are on display and available for purchase at the new Urban Hardwoods store in Union Square, San Francisco.
Contact the San Francisco store at (415) 397-9663 or email SF@urbanhardwoods.com for more information.
Click the image below to view Ochre's online catalogue.
Post Date: 05/23/2012
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Urban Hardwoods in Seattle and San Francisco is now carrying the "Mia" leather chair by the Italian design company Frighetto. Available in a range of colors, these chairs make a perfect pair with one-of-a-kind solid wood tables.
Contact any of our stores for more details, or click the image below to see more pictures.
Post Date: 05/23/2012
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Check out the newest rug from Peace Industry now available at our LA store. Click the image below to view all currently available inventory from Peace Industry.
Contact UHLA for details and pricing information.
424.204.9802
Post Date: 05/14/2012
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This bookmatched walnut dining table combined with our blackened wood trestle base is one of several new items in store. Visit the LA showroom located in the heart of the La Cienega Design Quarter to see new modern wood dining tables and unique accent pieces, or check our "in production" section to see what's coming up.
Urban Hardwoods Los Angeles
741 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
424.204.9802
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One of four options now being offered in Urban Hardwoods West Hollywood, with others available for viewing and purchase in our San Francisco showroom.
Call for details and pricing information 424.204.9802
"Broken Pyramid" 6' x 8' handmade felt rug, with Urban Hardwoods walnut slab table #1775
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Peace Industry rugs can also be ordered in various color schemes.
Visit or call for more information 424.204.9802
Image: "Crystal" 5' 6" D round
Post Date: 04/11/2012
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We are happy to showcase four beautiful examples of Peace Industry's designs that are currently available for viewing and purchase in our Los Angeles showroom.
Image: "Peak" 8' x 10' handmade felt rug by Peace Industry
Click the image below to view the Peace Industry catalog.
Post Date: 04/11/2012
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Time Magazine's March 5, 2012 issue features an article about the creative minds at Disney Pixar and includes an image of our walnut slab coffee table in their Emeryville headquarters.
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Urban Hardwoods is pleased to showcase Peace Industry’s beautiful handmade rugs in our California showrooms. Peace Industry also utilizes an earth friendly process to produce unique pieces that provide the perfect complement to our furniture in your home or office. We are happy to work with a company that, like us, uses a handmade process to produce high quality work with an attention to detail.
Currently available in UH San Francisco and coming soon to Los Angeles!
Please contact Urban Hardwoods San Francisco for details 415.397.9663
More information on Peace Industry:
http://www.peaceindustry.com/
Post Date: 03/22/2012
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Pick up the April Issue of House Beautiful and head to La Cienega Blvd. for the finest in contemporary, vintage, and of course wood slab furniture.
Post Date: 03/16/2012
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Urban Hardwoods in San Francisco presents the large-scale mixed media work of Sarah Winkler. Visit the SF furniture store to see the 9' x 3' "Desert Infinity" shown here; one of 10 pieces currently in-store.
Click the image below to see more work by Sarah Winkler.
Post Date: 02/01/2012
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In Ivan Butorac’s “Find Your True Nature” series, he captures the raw organic beauty of plants and tree landscapes in today’s decaying environment. He then digitally transforms his photographs into art forms, and often uses repetition and symmetry to create extraordinary surreal patterns and figures that showcase nature’s perfect design. He is interested in the dichotomy of the human race in their pollution and destruction of the planet versus the widespread promotion of an “organic” way of life. By calling attention to this contradiction, the artist attempts to reconnect the viewer to their true nature.
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." ~André Gide
Born in Belgrade Serbia, Ivan finished elementary and high school in a war torn country under a dictatorship. He surrounded himself for a decade with artistic people who held nonviolent protests against the war.
Ivan was heavily influenced by his artistic parents, and always experimenting with different media. Using his father and grandfather’s old camera equipment, he started taking pictures and making collages out of old photos. Nature and Love are his greatest inspiration. “It is so pure and there is no ego in it like in most of the people. Everything is working out with perfection and we tend to mess up a lot of things, we all need more love for each other and Mother Nature".
Ivan recently moved to Los Angeles, where he has started printing his artwork and participating in art shows.
Urban Hardwoods was founded in Seattle in 2002 as the most progressive and responsible wood furniture manufacturer and retailer in America. Stores in Seattle, San Francisco, and West Hollywood showcase an array of slab furniture made from trees salvaged in the Pacific Northwest. Sustainable Industries Magazine awarded Urban Hardwoods as one of the Top 10 Green Building Products of 2008. Combinations of man-made and natural materials define the Urban Hardwoods product.
www.urbanhardwoods.com
More information on the artist:
Ivan Butorac
Butorac_ivan@yahoo.com
www.saatchionline.com/ivanb
photo credit: "The X Plant" 2011, digital print on archival paper, multiple size limited edition prints available
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We've moved! Come visit our new store location at 434 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
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$675 each. Contact Seattle Urban Hardwoods for more information at 206.443.8099
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Vintage red chairs by esteemed furniture designer and architect Eero Saarinen, $600 each. Contact Urban Hardwoods Seattle 206.443.8099 for details.
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December 4, 2011, Urban Hardwoods athlete Charles Christianson will be competing in the Birds of Prey Alpine Skiing World Cup Race in Beaver Creek, Colorado. With an insatiable appetite for speed, a fiercely competitive spirit, and a chance to showoff to his home crowd, this notoriously difficult course is the perfect initiation to the big leagues. Congratulations Charles and good luck!
Post Date: 12/02/2011
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Comfortably seat your guests in style with the perfect complement to Urban Hardwoods' salvaged wood furniture- a finely crafted Italian leather sofa by Frighetto. $10,500; call the Seattle store at 206.443.8099 for more details.
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This chair, designed in the 1920s, is one example of the sleek vintage furniture available in Seattle. Priced at $1,100; call the Seattle store at 206.443.8099 for more details.
Post Date: 11/29/2011
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Urban Hardwoods in Los Angeles mentioned in the LA Times as part of the feature "Shopping La Cienega: L.A.'s thriving design district."
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"The similarity of shops is not entirely accidental. Three years ago, Stanton and Therien & Co. manager Philip Stites worked with other stores to found the La Cienega Design Quarter, hence the 300 orange LCDQ banners that hang along the sides of the street from Santa Monica Boulevard to Beverly Boulevard.
"We're all really working to encourage quality businesses to the street," Stanton said. "The more we do that, the more we create this environment where clients can park once and walk down the street and experience all of these shops and restaurants and even the number of beautiful courtyards."
Click to image below to read the entire article in the LA Times
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Publishing guides, magazines and maps for more than 70 yrs, WHERE covers 100+ destinations worldwide. Local expertise, global reach. www.wheretraveler.com
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Urban Hardwoods carries a wide variety of original vintage furniture including Charles + Ray Eames, Hans Wegner, Harry Bertoia (Bertoia Diamond Chairs pictured) and others. The perfect complement to your Urban Hardwoods table.
Post Date: 09/02/2011
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Disappearing Beauty
by Judith Barker
Exhibition: August 10- September 10, 2011
Reception: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7 pm-10pm
Gallery hours: Monday- Saturday 10 am- 6 pm
Click the image below to RSVP
In Judith Barker's "Disappearing Beauty" series, the artist is inspired to embark on a photographic journey to capture awe inspiring images of natural grandeur, before it is lost forever as a result of the ever changing climate. Her photographs provide a freeze frame of scenes that are integral to the maintenance of our world's "natural heritage." Appropriately including an array of environments from glacial scenes to lush mountainous terrains, this series serves as an aesthetic documentation of the many marvels of our world.
Judith Barker has studied photography at UC Berkeley Extension in California and attended Woodstock Photography Workshops in New York. She has also received a Masters in Communication, Film Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Design from the University of Cincinnati. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in both New York and California.
Urban Hardwoods was founded in Seattle in 2002 as the most progressive and responsible wood furniture manufacturer and retailer in America. Stores in Seattle, San Francisco, and West Hollywood showcase an array of slab furniture made from trees salvaged in the Pacific Northwest. Sustainable Industries Magazine awarded Urban Hardwoods as one of the Top 10 Green Building Products of 2008. Combinations of man-made and natural materials define the Urban Hardwoods product.
More information on the artist:
Judith Barker Art Studio
911 14th Street Studio B
Santa Monica, CA 90403
judithbarkerart.com
photo credit: "Dancing Grass, Camelot Cov NZ" 2010, giclee on velvet fine art paper, 11" x 14"
Post Date: 08/04/2011
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Urban Hardwoods and Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts invite you to our reception for Bay Area artist, Andrzej M. Karwacki. The artist will be on hand so please stop in and view his latest works and say hello. Until then!
Click the image below to RSVP.
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Click the image below for more info and to view the entire NOHO Modern collection.
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Here's an excerpt from the article by Dan Ashley:
"Urban Hardwoods on Pacific Street in San Francisco may be one of the beneficiaries of that new industry. It opened its first store in Seattle in 2001 and has now expanded to three stores on the West Coast, specializing in wood from local communities.
"People are becoming a little more conscience about the product that they buy and they want something well made, they want something that's handmade, and they also want something that's green," said Nick Christianson from Urban Hardwoods."
To read the rest of the article or watch the television broadcast, click the image below.
Post Date: 07/05/2011
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The dining table, the centerpiece of your home, is our specialty. Handmade at our Seattle factory, new tables arrive to our furnitue stores in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles often. Keep an eye on our site for products labeled "new" or visit our stores to see the new inventory in person.
Click the image below for more information on the chinese elm slab dining room table no. 1820.
Post Date: 06/28/2011
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R.A. Snow: Digital Analog
June 23 – August 4, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday June 23rd from 7 to 10pm
Urban Hardwoods in Los Angeles (UHLA) is pleased to announce the
solo exhibition of LA-based artist R.A. Snow.
A reception for the artist will be held Thursday June 23rd.
Click the image below to RSVP for the opening.
R. A. Snow is a Los Angeles based visual artist.
His current work explores people, places, and objects through photography, illustration, and painting.
He combines traditional techniques with the latest technology
to create his retro inspired artwork.
Residing in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles since 2004,
he works out of his studio in Lincoln Heights.
Ryan is a Fine Arts graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz where he received
his bachelor's degree and was the recipient of the Irwin Grant award.
He is currently represented by Bang Gallery in Los Angeles, and Ted Special in London.
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Urban Hardwoods' LA furniture store is carrying select products available from NOHO Modern in Los Angeles.
This set of 1960's Brazilian Rosewood Chairs is upholstered in 100% hemp fabric.
For more details, and to visit the NOHO Modern storefront on 1stdibs click the image below,
or visit Urban Hardwoods at 741 N. La Cienega Blvd in West Hollywood.
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Urban Hardwoods Finds A New Home In Belltown
Home + Design By Brad Nehring on May 2, 2011
Hand-crafted and environmentally-friendly, a local furniture favorite makes the move from Sodo to First Avenue.
Jim Newsom, founder and owner of Urban Hardwoods, knows a thing or two about local timber. For the past 15 years, his company has created gorgeous furniture by using tree species native to the Northwest. Last month, the company’s new showroom – a 6600 sq. ft space located in the heart of Belltown – opened its doors, and Newsom couldn’t be more thrilled.
“I think Belltown is the best area in the city,” he said. “It’s great for foot traffic, and you can get here from anywhere in the city. We expect to do quite well out here.”
Before he was a business owner, Newsom made his living as a furniture maker in Burien. Whenever he visited the beach, he would marvel at the multitude of unused, perfectly workable wood that was literally floating by in Puget Sound. “I was watching all this beautiful material pass by,” Newsom said, “and I thought, ‘I could really do something with this.’”
So, he purchased a tugboat to haul these logs and large pieces of driftwood onto the beach. He recalls one specimen – a large madrone log – that he cut open with a chain saw after it washed up on shore.
“It was beautiful,” Newsom said. “I had no idea how gorgeous it was inside, and I thought, ‘this is furniture.’ [From then on], I was out to find the stuff that was going to waste, and do something with it.”
Eventually, he acquired a sawmill and a large wood kiln as well. In 1998, Newsom founded Urban Hardwoods and set up shop in Sodo’s industrial district. Since then, his mission to create beautifully crafted furniture from local timber material has been a hallmark of the company.
“It’s a business I’m really proud of,” he said, “because it’s completely responsible and it’s green, but the most important aspect to our products is that it’s the finest quality of furniture you can find.”
Click the image to read the rest of the article
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Jessica Simmons: Work on Paper
May 6 – June 11, 2011
Urban Hardwoods in Los Angeles (UHLA) is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of LA-based artist Jessica Simmons. Jessica Simmons is currently showing in the Group Exhibition Alptraum at The Company from April 30 – May 28, 2011.
Through a combination of drawing and printmaking, Simmons’ works on paper explore the tension between the organic and the sterile, the soiled and the sanitary, and the unbound and restrained. Visual references to hair, skin, meat and plastic – an explicitly sterile material also associated with medical and biological waste – collapse the space between the interior and exterior body, thus blurring the demarcation between repulsion and purity. The resulting imagery is vaguely sexual, yet distinctly devoid of references to the masculine and feminine.
In a multi-part process, Simmons creates monoprints using a combination of objects such as hair, skin, cured meat, torn wire mesh window screens, and post-consumer plastic (such as bags or wrapping), all of which can be characterized as discarded, shed, or dismembered. The paper plane becomes a receptacle for the concurrent negative and positive presence of these forms: disembodied and disposed, yet simultaneously existent and accumulated. She builds up the resulting gestural shapes – randomized by the printing process – with detailed, intricate handwork, thereby anchoring a series of measured marks within a wild picture plane. This combination of printing and drawing, which both extracts and extends an object’s form, furthers the tension between the notion of negative and positive presence.
Deliberate handwork is used to overlay gestural marks, and corporeal forms reference translucent cellular bodies. Within all of these works, the paper itself becomes a surface marked by alchemical history. Gesture wrestles with geometry, and abstract forms absorb shadow and emit light.
Jessica Simmons was born in Providence, RI. She received a BA from Brown University in 2007 in Visual Arts and the History of Art and Architecture, and has studied at The Rhode Island School of Design, the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Pont Aven, France, and the Parsons Paris New School of Design. She has worked on projects for artists such as Mel Bochner, Tom Friedman and Ellen Gallagher at Two Palms Press in Manhattan. Jessica has lived and worked in Mumbai, New York, Paris, and Providence, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Click the image to RSVP for the opening Firday May 6th from 7 to 10pm.
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Urban Hardwoods in Los Angeles is now open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm.
Click the image to visit our contact page for more details.
Post Date: 04/15/2011
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Had a chance to visit the new store in Seattle? Don't mind writing reviews?? Click the image below and tell us how you feel!
Post Date: 04/08/2011
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Semigood Design is an American furniture company based in Seattle, WA. Each piece of furniture is designed and handmade to order by Semigood in their Seattle facility. The impetus of Semigood's furniture design is to provide a product that is everyday functional, but also heirloom quality, and that spares our environment unnecessary harm. Their pride stands in the combined commitment to bold and functional hand-crafted furniture and the sustainability that matches Semigood products. Their wood is FSC-certified, and they use proximate supplies to conserve and to minimize the toxic effects of transportation.
Visit Urban Hardwoods in SF & LA to see the Rift Chair in walnut and oak, the Rian Stool in walnut, ash, and oak, and the RTA Dwell Stool. The Dwell Stool debuted on the Sustainability stage at the 2010 Dwell on Design event in LA.
Click the image below to visit the Semigood online store at semigoods.com
Post Date: 04/07/2011
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Urban House, Seattle's new furniture store from Urban Hardwoods,
is now open at a new space.
Located near the famous Pike Place Market in trendy Belltown,
the Seattle store provides more space for a mix of products
in addition to Urban Hardwoods solid wood tables:
vintage chairs by the 20th century's greatest designers,
fabulous top grain leather sofas and chairs,
functional art from local artisans like Seth Rolland, Laura Yeats, and Owen Mortensen,
as well as occasional tables, coffee tables, and benches made from trees rescued in Seattle.
Click the image to follow Urban House on Facebook for all the latest Seattle store news.
Post Date: 03/30/2011
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Check out the "in production" section to get a look before they are complete.
Click the image to see what's new this week.
Post Date: 03/30/2011
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Urban Hardwoods' Seattle furniture store will open at 2101 First Ave in Belltown on March 31, 2011. The new space will provide more space, 6000 sq. feet to be exact, for a mixture of products that has done well thus far.
Stay tuned for more info, or click the image below to follow all Urban House updates on facebook.
Post Date: 03/29/2011
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UH Los Angeles is currently presenting the work of Jean Claude Wouters. Several large scale monochromatic pieces - comprised of unique silver gelatin print, oil paint, and graphite - present a striking visual balance in company with Urban Hardwoods' solid wood furniture.
Read more about the artist and the work shown, "A Cristal Bird..." 2004:
This impressive and large-scale photography on silver gelatin print is by Jean Claude Wouters. Titled, "A Cristal Bird Carrying a Vase - 17th Century" this abstract image from the artist's Buddha series shows an original Buddha from the 17th century found in Japan. Combining photography with paint and graphite, Wouters uses ancient iconography to explore light. Photography of such scale and size is rare and difficult to produce. The work is subtle but powerful and haunting. Born and raised in Brussels, Jean Claude Wouters has been a dancer, filmmaker and artist from an early age. Wouters considers all of his endeavors to be artistic explorations of the human body and spirit. Wouters has shown internationally, including solo exhibitions in the Marunouchi Gallery in Tokyo, the Knott Gallery in Brussels, and The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai; and has been featured in various publications and journals, including the New York Times, Le Soir (Belgian newspaper), and the Japan Times.
Post Date: 03/25/2011
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Urban Hardwoods' newest store, Urban House, mentioned in today's Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. Here is an excerpt from the article Belltown real estate is getting hot again:
'Jim Newsom, owner of Urban Hardwoods, has a showroom next to his Sodo factory. To complement that, he opened a Belltown store on First Avenue near Virginia Street last year, signing a short-term lease for 2,700 square feet.
“Where we are now gets a lot of foot traffic,” he said. Many visitors to the Belltown store are guests at nearby high-end hotels. The result “has been some really nice deals.”
This prompted Newsom to lease 6,600 square feet for a showroom at an Allegra Properties' building at the northwest corner of First and Lenora. Newsom, who will close his two current stores, signed a three-year lease, but it comes with what he called “a couple really long” extensions options. Urban Hardwoods, he said, is in it for the long haul.'
Visit www.djc.com to read the rest of the article.
Post Date: 03/16/2011
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Read about Urban House in today's re-nest post:
"A few weeks ago, I was driving down 1st Avenue in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle when my eyes instantly gravitated toward a neon sign with two of my favorite words, "urban" and "house". An offshoot of Urban Hardwoods, Urban House just recently opened in this design-oriented pocket of the city and its mixture of vintage classics and custom furniture (from reclaimed local trees) is well worth a second look.
In addition to furniture, the store is also carrying products from local designers and artists like Resolute Lighting and Laura Yeats.
So if you get a little weak in the knees from a live edge slab on hairpin legs, visit the store or check out more images online at Urban House."
Post Date: 03/10/2011
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Read about Urban House in today's Apartment Therapy post:
"From the folks at Urban Hardwoods comes a new Seattle sister store. Recently opened by proprietor Jim Newsom and his team, Urban House carries a mix of reclaimed hardwood tables, mid-century furniture, and artist-made home furnishings. Newsom's tables are "live edge" designs, meaning they incorporate salvaged hardwoods."
Post Date: 03/09/2011
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If you have made it this far on our site, you've probably sifted through some remarkable furniture. If you're lucky enough to visit the factory you probably know several pieces never actually make it to the site. Not anymore...
We've added a new category of tables to our online catalog. Visit the "in production" section and find tables before they are finished. Let us know when when you've found your table and make it yours before it ever gets posted as a new product on urbanhardwoods.com
Post Date: 02/26/2011
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Urban Hardwoods was lucky enough to be showcased during, A Day In The Life -- Tim Lincecum. Copy the link into your URL and hit play!
http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/giantsvideo?PID=Y82QZV0fhR4Q0r3FeFqZUbUwg0s21AKe
Post Date: 02/12/2011
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Beautiful sculpted wood pieces from Seattle Designer Laura Yeats.
Proof that wood is not limited to just tables. Accessories also enhance
any environment.
An Urban Hardwoods' favorite is the Monkey Puzzle occasional table.
www.yeatsdesign.com
Post Date: 01/25/2011
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Congratulations to all the happy clients who are enjoying their walnut dining tables.
It is no wonder because walnut is a durable wood that posseses a natural, milky chocolate finish.
Fortunately, the one below is still available in the Los Angeles Store.
Post Date: 01/24/2011
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Did you know...
It is important to us to retain the integrity of nature. Our wood slab
tables are pure, solid and organic in design infusing
environments with an understated elegance.
Post Date: 01/18/2011
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Redwood Burl Coffee Tables have arrived in the Los Angeles store.
The nice curves in these items are a contrast to the edges of other tables.
Redwood adds a dramatic flair and serves as a focal point in any environment.
Post Date: 01/17/2011
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Dreaming of a good night's rest?
Lay your head against the grain and you will be sawing logs.
What better way to spend the evening than with wood slab, the moon and the stars?
Post Date: 12/21/2010
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It is the holiday season and Santa has been good to us thus far.
We hope you are enjoying the holiday spirit.
The Christmas tree seems to be the main attraction in celebrating the hearth of the home. It is beautiful not to mention that it smells good.
It is a sad day when we have to dismantle the tree and "throw it out" for the garbage man. However, there are plenty of recycling programs for your tree.
Post Date: 12/21/2010
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Welcome to the Urban Hardwoods Daily Journal!
We will share our thoughts, discoveries and happenings with you.
Much has happened in the past year. And we are looking forward to what unfolds in 2011.
Our 4 locations, 2 in Seattle, 1 in San Francisco and 1 in Los Angeles, have the same vision but different vibes.
Our credo is "enliven our mission by giving nature a home."
It takes an eternity to develop nature, years to build a home, a lifetime to create memories.
Our slab wood tables are an understated elegance. Define your style with nature's beauty.
Post Date: 12/21/2010
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