INTO THE WOOD: If Gastown is one of your regular haunts (and if it isnt, it should be) youre already intimately acquainted with the repurposed, industrial aesthtic of self-taught carpenter/designer Craig Pearces Union Wood Company. Whether its the charcuterie boards at House Guest (made from the support beams of a former RCMP livery stable), the vintage canvas aprons behind the counter at Meat & Bread or the antiqued metal barn door at Clough Club, Pearces work is delightfully ubiquitous. In fact, this last week, Union Woods studio-cum-storefront, which opened in mid November at 503 Railway, was shuttered as Pearce and his crew were working on the interior of one of the citys oldest buildings as well as putting the finishing touches at hotly anticipated Gastown wine bar Wildebeest. Open again starting this week (Thursdays to Saturdays only) the intentionally bare-bones space reminiscent of your fathers basement workshop features custom furniture, bespoke butcher block oil and an array of retro lighting fixtures seemingly culled from abandoned factories and merely dusted off before going on the sales floor. Were counting up our Christmas cash for the Passages bed (pictured), an artful combination of distressed woods and metal framing that would look equally at home in an Eastside loft or a Yaletown condo. Info:
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