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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Boardroom

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Distillery District, Toronto. This project involved twelve pieces of custom furniture made from reclaimed old-growth Douglas fir from the Toronto Distillery, with glass and metal elements. Artwork by Richard Watts. These pieces are called Earth Skins and are made by layering latex and gauze onto surfaces in the Canadian Shield: rock-faces, trees, old wooden boats and canoes. When back-lit they can be seen as x-rays of the warming earth. Further images can be seen in the "Artworks" gallery and at rawart2.com.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Display Cabinets

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Distillery District, Toronto.

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Steel-topped Dining Table

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Private client. Steel-topped dining table treated with gun-blueing.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Display Cabinet

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Distillery District, Toronto.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Console and Artwork

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Console on wheels, made from reclaimed Douglas fir. Artwork, "East", made from old lathe wall. Distillery District, Toronto.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Blast Furnace Door in Steel Frame

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These were the blast furnace doors in one of the Distillery buildings. Crowe River Studio altered and finished them in steel frames with wheels as sculptural hall dividers.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Blast Furnace Door Detail

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Detail of surface. Distillery District, Toronto.

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Glass-fronted Canning Cabinet

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As part of his dining room suite, this client ordered this cabinet to display his canning made at his cottage near North Bay, Ontario.

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Avant-Derm Dermatology Clinic Artworks in Hall

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This series is called "Canoe People". It was displayed at Avant Derm during 2010. Distillery District, Toronto.

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Custom bench, Market Hall Art Centre

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Peterborough, Ontario. One of two custom benches.

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Sideboard in Process with Artwork Behind

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Glass-topped sideboard in process. "Canoe People" artwork backdrop.

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Milk Paint and Distillery Wood Cabinet

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Milk Paint and reclaimed Douglas fir Distillery wood cabinet for Sacha Nizami Design.

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Earth Mother Sideboard Top

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Has an Earth Skin inside it, which lights up. Reclaimed Distillery wood.

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Detail Front Door of piece

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Note nails cut through silver spots.

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Workstation detail

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Centre for Indigenous Theatre workstation.