Cade Cahalan is a Los Angeles based furniture designer and craftsman who's work explores the interaction between wood and clay.
His debut collection Xylolith (from xylo meaning 'wood' and lithos meaning 'stone') challenges these two seemingly opposing materials* to reinterpret ceramic tiling and traditional joinery.
*When clay is wet, it is soft and moldable, while wood is rigid in structure. Once fired, clay becomes harder than wood, yet wood retains the ability to be shaped into its final form, mimicking the original qualities of clay.
While wood continually adjusts to moisture, through expansion and contraction, clay undergoes a linear transformation, shifting from malleable to fixed as its plasticity diminishes.