Mono Chair in Ebonized Ash

Always at Objects & Ideas, we say that the best products have a soul and a presence, a voice that speaks to you. So it is with Mono, a single flowing line drawn in space, describing and forming the outline of the chair and table. The idea for Mono came from a visit to an airshow, watching aircraft drawing patterns, twisting and turning in space as the flew overhead. Somehow we wanted to capture that fluidity and express it in our furniture. More than that, we wanted to express it in solid wood, and show what this beautiful, honest and authentic material can do.

Objects & Ideas are members of Ontario Wood, a Canadian programme that promotes sustainable use of wood, and that's a key part of our identity as both artists and designers. We believe in locally sourced, locally made, sustainable products, designed by ourselves and made with the help and skills of individual artisans and craftspeople. Mono for example, is made by hand by precisely three people in their own workshops. We do use modern tools and techniques, but not on an industrial scale, and everything is hand-finished.

It is through our products that we express our art and our conceptual ideas. We're -perhaps a little different to many studios in that we tend to have ideas and concepts we want to express, and furniture is the vehicle we use. We don't set out to design chairs, tables or even coat-stands, but we do love what we make, and we hope you do too.