About
About
Hermitage Woodworks prepares objects, spaces, structures and
furnishings from solid wood to serve various contemplative
traditions, cultures and lifestyles; those that enjoy meditation, quiet
contemplation, religious concentration, solitude or the comfort of
good company.
Hermitage Woodworks prepares objects, spaces, structures and furnishings from solid wood to serve various contemplative
traditions, cultures and lifestyles; those that enjoy meditation, quiet contemplation, religious concentration, solitude or the comfort of good company.
Hermitage Woodworks prepares objects, spaces, structures and
furnishings from solid wood to serve various contemplative
traditions, cultures and lifestyles; those that enjoy meditation, quiet
contemplation, religious concentration, solitude or the comfort of
good company.
“With all our self-consciousness, we have very little sense of where we live, where we are right here right now. If we did, we wouldn't muck it up the way we do. If we did, our literature would celebrate it. If we did, our religion might be participatory. If we did—if we really lived here, now, in this present—we might have some sense of our future as a people. We might know where the center of the world is.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“With all our self-consciousness, we have very little sense of where we live, where we are right here right now. If we did, we wouldn't muck it up the way we do. If we did, our literature would celebrate it. If we did, our religion might be participatory. If we did—if we really lived here, now, in this present—we might have some sense of our future as a people. We might know where the center of the world is.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“With all our self-consciousness, we have very little sense of where we live, where we are right here right now. If we did, we wouldn't muck it up the way we do. If we did, our literature would celebrate it. If we did, our religion might be participatory. If we did—if we really lived here, now, in this present—we might have some sense of our future as a people. We might know where the center of the world is.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
Whether with wares for the preparation of tea, furniture for study, writing or votive practices, rooms or buildings for meditation or relaxation, or garden structures for the appreciation of nature, we utilize the incredible aesthetic and functional abilities of wood to their highest capacity, and believe that the beauty, strength and naturalness of trees and wood and their culture of use by humans can provide a direct, beneficial connection to the material and spiritual world and our enjoyment of both.
Whether with wares for the preparation of tea, furniture for study, writing or votive practices, rooms or buildings for meditation or relaxation, or garden structures for the appreciation of nature, we utilize the incredible aesthetic and functional abilities of wood to their highest capacity, and believe that the beauty, strength and naturalness of trees and wood and their culture of use by humans can provide a direct, beneficial connection to the material and spiritual world and our enjoyment of both.
“Nowadays [one] who wishes to experience the poetry of life ... should have a hut of one's own. ... Here, isolated from the wasteland and its new-world saviors, a person might gain perspective on life and the forces that threaten to smother it…
Even if this hut is only one's normal abode inhabited in a different way, here in a hut of one's own, a person may find one's very own self, the source of humanity's song.”
-Ann Cline
“Nowadays [one] who wishes to experience the poetry of life ... should have a hut of one's own. ... Here, isolated from the wasteland and its new-world saviors, a person might gain perspective on life and the forces that threaten to smother it…
Even if this hut is only one's normal abode inhabited in a different way, here in a hut of one's own, a person may find one's very own self, the source of humanity's song.”
-Ann Cline
“Nowadays [one] who wishes to experience the poetry of life ... should have a hut of one's own. ... Here, isolated from the wasteland and its new-world saviors, a person might gain perspective on life and the forces that threaten to smother it…
Even if this hut is only one's normal abode inhabited in a different way, here in a hut of one's own, a person may find one's very own self, the source of humanity's song.”
-Ann Cline
With a deep understanding of wood as a medium, we use traditional carpentry tools and techniques, combined with classic industrial wood machinery, to create time enduring works that seek to bolster our self-reflective tendencies, encouraging us to take time, study to be quiet, encounter nature, contemplate and enjoy our time and place on Earth.
As the hermit poet Stonehouse wrote:
Examine the patterns of transient existence the outcome of a game of chess isn’t fixed a monk in the mountains needs to be free people in the dust grow old unaware windblown tea smoke floats above my bed stream-borne petals fill the pond outside with thirty-six thousand days why not spend a few staying still
Citations and Further Reading:
Ursula K. Le Guin; “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”
Ann Cline; “A Hut of One’s Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture”
“The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse” as translated by Red Pine
Photography by
JP Li -
Lawrence Martinez
Citations and Further Reading:
Ursula K. Le Guin; “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”
Ann Cline; “A Hut of One’s Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture”
“The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse” as translated by Red Pine
Photography by
JP Li -
Lawrence Martinez
Citations and Further Reading:
Ursula K. Le Guin; “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”
Ann Cline; “A Hut of One’s Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture”
“The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse” as translated by Red Pine
Photography by
JP Li - Lawrence Martinez