The Story
The Story
Fractured Casks begins at the point where a cask’s working life ends. The object has already been shaped by tree, cooperage, fire, contents, movement and time.
The design does not conceal that history beneath the language of conventional furniture. Retired cooperage is dismantled, studied and recomposed so that curvature, char, compression marks, repairs and wear can remain part of the finished work.
The result sits between collectible studio furniture, functional sculpture and material-provenance artefact: recognisably born from the cask, but no longer confined by its original vessel form.
Material Truth
Source claims follow evidence. A cask is not assigned a distillery, age, fill or history because its appearance suggests one.
The Fracture
The closed vessel is deliberately broken open. Fracture is a compositional act, not random damage.
Making
Cooperage-derived material and detailing remain visible while engineering and new structure stay visually subordinate.
The Record
Design, material allocation, workshop process and completed form are documented as one continuous history.
The cask is not converted. The cask is fractured.
The familiar barrel is treated as a source of architecture. Staves separate, extend, frame voids and become walls or doors; hoops cease merely to bind a vessel and become part of a new composition.