Recently, we’ve seen bundles of birch logs being sold at delis around New York City: cheap enough for an evening’s cozy fire. Since we don’t have a fireplace, we’ve admired them as a lovely, elemental raw material – right on our doorstep – and mulled what we could do with them; we’ve been meaning to buy a pack just to have and see where they took us.

This morning we came across this shelving unit designed by architect Andrea Branzi – a simple birch log inserted into a simple black bookshelf, that makes for a charming and surprising visual.

So now we ARE going to go out and buy some logs before they’re gone with winter.

Some birch packs aren’t always white birch, so you may have to pick through them if that’s what you’re looking for…

We’ve heard that TrueValue Hardware sometimes sells them. And various sizes of birch log bundles are readily available on Amazon. Wilson’s Evergreen sells many sizes, including long birch poles.

 

We’ve got birch logs on our minds…

More pix of Branzi’s work here.

via You Have Been Here Sometime

 

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