The Balano process
Process — Balano
The flattest bark makes the closest light.
Balano is the wall piece: glass cast in the shallowest plates of bark we keep, the ones too flat to become a pendant and too good to leave on the beach. Cast, it sits low and close to the wall, more shell than vessel.
- Series
- Balano — Sconce
- Mould
- The shallowest bark plates, too flat to become a pendant
- Glass
- Hand-blown, spread thin; the rim carries the light
- Mount
- Hardware behind the glass — on the wall it reads as glass alone
- Light
- Warm low-voltage LED, dimmable at the wall
- Edition
- One of one, every piece
- Lead time
- 8–10 weeks from inquiry to delivery
- Made in
- Cast on the North Shore; finished in Vancouver
The shallow plate
Mould2026A shallow mould is less forgiving than a deep one. The glass spreads instead of pooling, so the pour has to be read in advance: where the rim will hold, where the centre will thin to almost nothing.
The spread pour
Pour2026We keep the reading honest with the same tools we use on every cast, then trust the plate. The glass finds the rim, thins across the centre, and stops where the bark says stop.
On the wall
Pieces2026Lit, the light gathers at the rim and leaves the centre quiet, so the wall does most of the work. The hardware sits behind the glass; on the wall the piece reads as glass alone. Like every cast, the mould survives one pour, so every sconce is the first and the last of its kind.
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