Roadmap: Knot It


Posted August 10, 2023 in Design

Cirillo’s

“I took a year off college to travel around Japan, WWOOFing,” says Westport-based Ed Forristal.

“I worked on various farms and in the basin of a mountain outside of Kyoto I was asked to cut down trees and build the owner of the land a garage for his car.

Once that was done I built him storage for his firewood and re-floored his chicken coop.

That was the first bit of woodwork I had ever done and although it was very different to the sort of woodwork I do now it completely changed my perspective on work and how I wanted to make a living throughout life.”

He has just launched his new collection of wood-turned tableware which reveal grain, texture and simple beauty.

forristalwoodwork.com

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