wood seminar at HSPV

Wharton Esherick's Table in Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Material: padauk
For more information on Esherick's works, go to:
http://www.levins.com/esherick.html



His works are quite amazing. There is a sense of fluid control. The overall balance is achieved by the use of planar surfaces organized under basic compositional order. Each individual plane, however, has its own shape and angle. What changes are the length and direction of the boundary lines. These lines are carried through the planar surface by the use of parallel grains of the wooden material.