Anzfer Farms Driftwood Lamps

In the Curl // Alison Baitz // 03/07/11
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Anzfer Farms

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Anzfer Farms

Driftwood seems a worthwhile beach souvenir until your collection starts to look like, well, a pile of sticks. Enter Anzfer Farms, a San Francisco-based art workshop that turns washed-ashore wood into something not only beautiful, but totally functional: rustic log lamps. While walking their dogs along the Bay Area coast, Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso (Anzfer–get it?) began noticing the shore’s sightly driftwood just ripe for the picking. Searching for a way to combine practicality and art for art’s sake, the duo stuck retro circular bulbs into the pieces of especially pretty wood, and their fragment light was born. While it’s clear that these driftwood obsessives are multi-talented (they honed their skills by crafting tables and benches and have their sights on large-scale installations), we think their found-wood lamps are simply tops.



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Originally published in February/March 2011


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