Meet the Makers: Nicholas Shurey
In partnership with Toast, we meet a Copenhagen-based woodworker carving functional objects into tactile sculptures.
Nicholas Shurey believes furniture should fulfill more than just its function: it should be sculptural in its own right. The British-born, Denmark-based designer has a background in interior architecture—including stints at Space Copenhagen and Studio Toogood—but has now given himself over to making hand-carved wooden pieces that sit “somewhere between furniture, object and sculpture.” Only a year after taking up woodwork, his often-playful, multifunctional creations have earned him a place in Toast’s inaugural class of New Makers—a mentorship program for designers working in contemporary crafts.
What made you switch from architecture to woodwork?
Last summer I left a stressful job. Rather than going straight into another, I decided to do something fun for a month. I found a...
