MY DAD’S WOODZ

MY DAD’S WOODZ — tactile dishes and objects made from rare wood, crafted by my legendary dad.

My dad, Nikolai Andreevich Krasko, is 70 and he is not using technology. Therefore, I (his proud daughter Krasko Olesya) am in charge of visuals, communications and branding in our project.

Dad has been working with wood since 1889 and has built over 40 dachas or timber cottages over the past 27 years. All of them on his own with his bare hands.

After retiring, he switched to small forms, and his new passion is working with birch burl.

The burl is a woody growth on a trunk of a tree, often crooked and ugly. But burl wood is a very rare and prized type of wood, which is valued for its unique structure and distinctive pattern created by nature itself.

It takes almost a year to work with this material (see the process in the slider below)

As a result of this laborious process, the rough heads of the burls are transformed into warm, tactile objects of mesmerizing beauty. Their unique pattern is similar to malachite and shimmers like silk. You can drink their beauty as a form of meditation.