Copied many times since we created it, our elegant Fairlight Bowl shape is shown here hand crafted in Olive Ash. The beautiful markings of this bowl are completely natural. As Ash trees grow older the interior of some of them turn an olive colour (the Ash tree is related to the Olive tree). This particular piece has a beautiful variation and pattern in the grain and colours.

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. 31cm wide x 6cm high x 4cm deep.

Finished with a hard-wearing 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.