woodworking Archives — Colossal

a sculpture of a giant junk drawer and numerous handmade objects in the lifelike shapes of scissors, candles, candy, sauce packets, and much more

Sift Through Grace Baldwin’s Giant Junk Drawer Filled with Nostalgia

August 20, 2026

a still from a film by Joshua Charrow documenting the inside of a woodworking factory

New York City’s Last Standing Wood Column Company Closes After 110 Years

August 6, 2026

a series of colorful, whimsical chair designs conceived by children and created by Taekhan Yun

Children’s Imaginations Run Wild in Taekhan Yun’s Collaborative Design Workshops

June 16, 2026

a collection of small, abstract, spindly wooden sculptures

Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis

April 7, 2026

a wood-carved sculpture of a dog by Misato Sano

Misato Sano’s Charming Wooden Dogs Are Carved With Personality

April 3, 2026

a wooden figure with adventurous clothing by Henry Wood

A Doomed Mission to Mars Awaits Henry Wood’s Lanky Explorers

March 24, 2026

A detail of a figurative, painted wood sculpture of a young man by Shinsuke Inoue

Restrained Emotions Simmer in Shinsuke Inoue’s Tender Wood Sculptures

March 19, 2026

A gif from a short film produced by the V&A showing two miniature 17th-century table replicas being stacked on the original

Terry Facey Painstakingly Replicates a 17th-Century Marquetry Table at 1:8 Scale

January 2, 2026

a carved wooden sculpture by Ikuo Inada of a figure standing with a blanket over their head as if very sleepy

A Japanese Exhibition Places Contemporary Woodcarving Within the Continuum of Art History

October 22, 2025

a detail of a wooden sculpture by Yoshitoshi Kanemaki of a female figure with a bright pink skirt and a denim jacket, with multiple faces and expressions

Yoshitoshi Kanemaki’s Sculptures Sport Kaleidoscopic Expressions in Their Search for a ‘True Self’

September 2, 2025

a colorful, hand-carved wooden sculpture of a fox or coyote carrying a flower in its mouth

Whittled Wood Sculptures by Brett Stenson Conjure Curiosity and Longing

July 24, 2025

A Years-Long Collaboration Sees a Traditional Tlingit Tribal House Return to Glacier Bay

March 31, 2025

the side of an old stone barn clad in tiny wooden shingles in an undulating pattern

Wycliffe Stutchbury Configures Miniature Wood Shingles into Mesmerizing Arrangements

February 5, 2025

Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels

July 29, 2024

a wooden figure with red balloons attached to her arms

Tender Interactions Emerge from Wood in Fumiya Watanabe’s Delicate Sculptures

June 11, 2024

Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis’s Enchanting Geometric Sculptures

February 29, 2024