A carved vase on a marble mantel, holding dried grasses
The archive

In collectors’ homes.

The archive

In collectors’ homes

Every piece that has gone. For years I made these and kept no record — one photograph each is all that survives, and that is the honest version. Move the light across them.

0 pieces, 2022 to today. Newer work carries its whole story: the tree, the film, the rings.

These pieces have found their homes

Commission the next one

Every piece is one of one, but the bench keeps working. Commissions here tend to start one of two ways.

Someone loses a tree that mattered — the one in the yard they grew up climbing, the one that came down in a storm — and they want to keep part of it in a form they will actually use. Or a designer has a space that needs one specific object: an alcove, a hall table, a shelf where nothing bought off a shelf will do.

If either of those sounds like you, tell me about it. If you have the wood, I will work with it. If you do not, I will find the right tree.

I read every one of these myself. Would rather just write? artist@seanphilips.com

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