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Cast Object. Trinket Tray
Cast Object
Trinket Tray
Hand cast beeswax and hemp trinket tray, natural or charcoal colouring.
Materials and Origin
170 x 100 x 30mm (W x D x H)
Beeswax | Newcastle upon Tyne
Hemp | North Yorkshire.
Handmade in the North of England.
0.14 kg
Beeswax is a locally sourced, low impact, and natural material. Frequently overlooked, but tactile, soft, and capable if considered. Ideal for low temperature casting, it is able to be combined with
natural materials like hemp to provide visual depth and lower the carbon footprint.
Care
Indoor use only, avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight or heat sources, this may cause distortion.
Suitable for contact with water. The surface may mark and it is intended to wear the marks from the life it goes on to live.
About Henry
What do we owe the generations that follow us? For designer Henry Chantler, this question sits at the centre of a practice concerned with material, responsibility and the lasting consequences of making.
A graduate of Three Dimensional Design at Northumbria University, Henry challenges established ideas of production and consumption, exploring how objects might be made differently — and with greater consideration for the world they will inhabit.
His work begins with material. Its origins, its transformation, its environmental cost. Through research and hands-on experimentation, Henry investigates local resources, alternative processes and low-carbon methods, allowing the character and limitations of each material to inform the objects that emerge.
There is a quiet radicalism to his approach. Sustainability is neither an aesthetic nor an added virtue, but an inherent part of good design. Objects should be useful, repairable, considered and made to endure.
Underpinning his practice is a proposition: Our Grandchildren’s World. A call to look beyond the immediate, to reconsider what we produce and why, and to recognise that the things we make today belong, ultimately, to tomorrow.
