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Blending Nature with Creative Imagination! ....


Natural Tree Furniture

by
Ray and Annie Smith


 

Adding Visual Interest to Your Homes Environment

Blending Nature with Creative Imagination! - Twig Plant Stand

One of the easiest ways to add visual interest to your home's environment is to introduce texture. Classic rustic furnishings accomplishes this with both warmth and grace. Trees make wonderful, sophisticated accent pieces that compliment any decor. It adds instant personality to a home, office, patio, cabin or wherever you'd like to display these works of art. In recent years, rustic furniture has become quite trendy with decorators.

Red Elm Chair - One of the easiest ways to  add visual interest to your home's environment is to introduce texture. Classic rustic furnishings accomplishes this with both warmth and grace.

Can furniture be classified as art? Art is subjectively understood in accordance to each person's individual taste. Working in rustic styles is a very interpretive process. Interior designers with whom we have worked, select our furnishings to attain a certain ambiance to a room. As accent pieces, they blend well with most every type of furniture. It invites many people to reestablish their rich interconnectedness with nature and simpler times, or it may remind them of the last get a way spent at their vacation home.

Within an absolute true regard for trees and a shared concern about the future of our planet, all Natural Tree Furniture is expressed in purely organic materials: Reclaimed branches, roots, logs and or sticks. The characteristic traits of these native woods, polished or bark left in place, truly merit becoming one of the most popular styles in the market today. White Rocker - rustic, furniture, art, natural tree furniture, rustic furnishings, warmth, visual interest, nature, trees, branches Furniture design ranges from simple to luxurious, according to the intended use. Ray utilizes the existing character that nature provides to craft functional art. Each unique piece is as distinctive as the trees from which it was created. Individual branches are harvested, kiln dried, and placed with intention. Mother Nature provides the form, we provide the function.

Commissioned pieces are elegant solutions to any interior or exterior designing problems. Defining fundamental requirements often produces an avenue for fascinating new concepts which contributes to the philosophy of our custom design principles. Ray creates truly irresistible, sculptured furniture. The furniture's tactile and visual qualities enchants the senses. Even as the eye is free to navigate the aesthetics, your hand is unexpectedly compelled to embrace the wood itself.



Artisan Ray SmithNatural Tree Furniture is a small design and production workshop located in Rockford, Illinois. Artisan Ray Smith is currently showcased locally in The Artery & Ingrassia Interior Elements. Enthusiastic collectors of his work range from New York to San Diego. He also collaborates with architects and designers on commissioned furniture and interior detailing. Visit us online at http://www.smithindustries.com to view our free form stick and twig designs.


 

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