Jennifer Zurick UNTITLED #719, Basket, Willow Bark, American Contemporary Crafts

Jennifer Zurick Manufactured by Jennifer Zurick Produced in exclusive for SIDE GALLERY Kentucky (USA), 2019 Nesting instinct Willow bark, honey suck...

Manufactured by Fango. Colombia, 2023 Yaré fiber and metal structure. Measurements 42 x 42 x 47h cm 16,5 x 16,5 x 18,5h in Provenance Fango Studio, Medellín, Colombia. Exhibitions Casavells 2023. Concept The Ibuju collection projects the synergy of designing and storytelling, an essential intention of Fango’s creative director, Francisco Jaramillo. The series stems from concern over the indiscriminate logging and overuse of the native woods from the endangered green lung of planet earth, the Amazon, a jungle increasingly fading from the world. Looking for alternatives to build functional furniture in native materials, Jaramillo and the weavers of Fango discovered the renewable Yaré fiber. Yaré is a fiber commonly called “vine", a root that grows around the trunks of trees in the Colombian Amazon. These fibers are used by local indigenous communities in southern Colombia for handcrafted weaving, which inspired Jaramillo to translate the native aesthetics and geometries of primitive wooden...

Strikingly textural, our Lubid Natural Abaca Basket beautifully combines form with sturdy durability. Handwoven in the Philippines out of abaca, a tree fiber that’s tough yet surpris...

The vintage basket features rounded, bulbous form with wider base and tapered top. The top is accented with decorative woven grass elements that are extrended to the body of the bask...