Daniel Wester
Torslanda, Sweden
Daniel Wester
Torslanda, Sweden

”Carving wood is so much more than the carving itself. It's the smell of the blanks. The feel in your hands touching it. The look of the material. Working with a piece of wood, chopped out from a log harvest from a 100 year old tree…it's like meditation.” 

- Daniel Wester

Telling stories in wood is the calling of Daniel Wester, a Swedish wood artisan and sculptor. Working exclusively with hand tools like the ax and the knife, he works to reveal essential forms with Scandinavian clarity and unselfconscious minimalism.

In this collection of spoons for the NICOLEHOLLIS Collection, polish and artifice are stripped away to reveal the wood’s inherent fragility and its eternal strength. The simplicity in Wester’s technique allows the essence of fresh-cut wood to remain in the final product, creating a transcendent connection between time, purpose, and material.

Products by Daniel Wester