On view starting next week at Étage Projects in Copenhagen is a body of work by the Danish-born, Zurich-based artist Cristian Andersen which, despite its stark styling here, is kind of giving us the warm fuzzies.

In the midst of the pandemic last year, Stockholm's Note Design Studio launched Note Editions, which is a curious sort of new breed. Rather than develop wholly new products, the studio's intent is to take existing pieces that they've made for manufacturers and release special editions and colors that they can send directly to customers.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, there's no shortage of timber. But rather than planing those native trees or turning them on the lathe, like so many of his peers, Vince Skelly uses a chainsaw to roughly sculpt each of his chairs, tables, or sculptures from a single block of wood. Skelly follows the grain and patterns inherent in each piece, inspired by antecedents that stretch from prehistoric megalithic dolmens to the sculptures of Brancusi, the paintings of Philip Guston, the cartoon sets of the Flintstones, and the carvings of JB Blunk.