Based in Queens, New York, Jack Eriksson and Dustin John of Arcana often pull inspiration from the experimentation and discovery that come from the fabrication process itself. Their new Gloaming Mirror began with a phone call to a local roofing corrugation company to ask if they might use its corrugation dies to create a rippled effect in the mirror’s rose-gold surface; their amoeba-shaped Thorb dining table was produced during the recent pandemic lockdown from a leftover piece of quarter-sawn white oak. Pierced by five dowels, the table is then cerused — a centuries-old decorative technique that helps to both raise the grain of the wood and temper the table’s modern shape.

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