Making the Moon Table

For the last few years my woodworking collaborator Zina Burloiu and I have felt that our creative path was set for years to come, but in 2018 we had a surprise opportunity that injected new life into our creative veins. In early 2018 we were invited to submit an entry proposal to Studio Furniture 2018, which would be one of the most significant exhibitions of its kind ever held in Australia.

For many furniture makers this would be an opportunity of a lifetime, but for us it was flabbergasting because neither Zina nor I are furniture makers! We decided that this had to be our strength – that we came with no preconceived notions of what would be successful and, more particularly, no set idea of how it should be done.

Zina and I believe that while technical matters are important, it is the idea behind a piece that makes it sing. The idea for began as a conversation about what a piece of furniture is. Zina and I have 21 years’ experience of working together and ideas flow so smoothly that words