GoEs: taking Bosnian wood crafting expertise onto the international stage | News | Architonic
A landscape that features dense forests and fast-growing trees has afforded Bosnia and Herzegovina a long history of supplying woods, wooden parts and fully crafted furniture to the world. Anyone who has invested in a Billy Bookcase in the past 15 years, chances are it started life in a Bosnian forest. Beyond the country’s borders, however, it’s been an unsung asset and expertise for much of that history, and we are only now starting to see the heritage of Bosnian furniture-making celebrated in the form of considered home-grown design brands on the international stage. Only now are the stories of both the origins of these fine raw materials and the making traditions being told. While some Bosnian brands are emerging from family carpentry and carving traditions, others are branching off from some of the larger corporations of makers and suppliers. Such is the story of GoEs, which is a side shoot of Aptha, but v…
A landscape that features dense forests and fast-growing trees has afforded Bosnia and Herzegovina a long history of supplying woods, wooden parts and fully crafted furniture to the world. Anyone who has invested in a Billy Bookcase in the past 15 years, chances are it started life in a Bosnian forest. Beyond the country’s borders, however, it’s been an unsung asset and expertise for much of that history, and we are only now starting to see the heritage of Bosnian furniture-making celebrated in the form of considered home-grown design brands on the international stage. Only now are the stories of both the origins of these fine raw materials and the making traditions being told.
While some Bosnian brands are emerging from family carpentry and carving traditions, others are branching off from some of the larger corporations of makers and suppliers. Such is the story of GoEs, which is a side shoot of Aptha, but v…
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