Singularly-harvested with Love

January 30 · How to Talk Like John, Tree Travels, Uncategorized · Catskills, far out, hobart, JOHNHOUSHMAND, reclaimed wood, timber, wood

A lot of people ask us about where we get our beautiful slabs of wood, and the answer really is all around. At JOHNHOUSHMAND we don’t harvest wood for our furniture but instead utilize trees that have been felled or damaged by storms, need to be cut down due to safety or otherwise. Hobart, New York really has become John Houshmand’s home and so he is on a first name basis with numerous members of the Catskill community who let him know if they know of any trees that need to be removed.

It’s inspiring to see every part of the process from helping out another in the community, to having some fun climbing the trees, to starting to the create the custom-made furniture that we love to produce.

Organic Ice Sculpture – Hobart, NY

January 18 · Uncategorized · hobart, John Houshmand

Our blog usually chronicles the stream of new designs coming out of our amazing, upstate craft facility – the abundance of which doesn’t leave us much time to give our readers a look into some of our side projects. The “World of JOHNHOUSHMAND” is much more expansive than just furniture and interior design … a lot of it is artistic experimentation for artistic experimentation sake, and our “lab” is Scotch Valley Ranch.

This winter John’s pond, which features a propulsion water fountain, and a mobile, floating dock with a bed on-board went Andy Goldsworthy and transformed an overgrown bush into a site-specific sculpture. The water being propelled from the pond was arranged to cover the tree, which in the cold winter months freezes from the bottom up creating a dome-like, goliath of ice. The sculpture melts and freezes in accordance with the weather, beautiful in all its permutations.

Take a look for yourself and more to come!