First launched in Denmark in 2010, Eco wood design is now based in Melbourne with a range of bowls inspired by its creator’s time in Copenhagen.
Designer Stephen Ziguras had moved with his partner to Denmark, where she was offered a position at Roskilde University. There he began making furniture and started working on bowl designs.
After testing 40 prototypes and experimenting with sizes, colours, shapes and materials he has settled on birch wood and three styles in his K Bowl series.
“I wasn’t prepared to take them to market until I was happy that the quality and finish was as good as it could be,” he says.
“I fell in love with birch plywood in Copenhagen. It is highly regarded and has a beautiful soft, creamy tone and lovely warm figuring. It is also more stable than solid timber when glued together with the grain in different directions.
“They were partly inspired by my workshop’s location on Teglgårdstræde (Tileyard Street) within the old city walls. The interlocking patterns of tiles that the name suggests made me think of ways to create a geometric three-dimensional form.”
The three styles of bowls are named after the Danish words for tile (tegl), six (seks) and basket (kurv). They are all food safe and water resistant so can be used for salad, fruit and other food.
