Copied many times since we created it, our elegant Fairlight Bowl shape is shown here hand crafted in Brown Oak. The beautiful markings of this bowl are completely natural. Brown Oak’s rich colour is caused by a specific fungus which attacks English oak trees, releasing acids that stain the wood brown. It it's relatively rare and valued especially for its striking solid brown or streaky appearance, making it highly sought after for decorative use.

Our straight sided Fairlight design was a new and original design developed by us as a result of rethinking the conventional “rules” of woodturning. One of these conventional rules is that the wall thickness of a bowl MUST be even. Combining this with traditional desire of woodturners to prize the face of the bowl the most, ment that there were decades if not centuries of the same conventional bowl shapes being turned. Each of these bowls reduce the vast majority of the outside wall to sawdust and woodchips during the making process. While straight sided bowls had been done before, they also had straight sided interiors with an even wall thicknesses, and were essentially vertically elongated trays. What we at Bird & Branch did, was to keep the straight side but do away with the even wall thickness rule and by adding a sweeping curve to the interior surface we took the best of both worlds.

Measures approx. 29cm wide x 6cm high x 4.5cm deep.

Finished with a hardwearing blend of natural plant oils and waxes It will be equally at home on the table as a fruit or salad bowl or simply as a prized decorative object.