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The SYN Furniture Journal is a working record from one furniture workshop: how pieces are cast, cured, measured, packed and finished. It is written by the people doing the work.
2 stories · 2 departments · since 2025Updated 7 October 2026
Finishing a cast shell by hand
Two pieces on the pallets they were worked on, still wet from the final wash — one blue, one mirror-finished.
Photograph — SYN
The pour lasts twelve minutes; everything the photographs in this piece show happens in the weeks after it. Filler in the joint, primer on the shell, and then the last operation, which is done by hand, outdoors, with polishing paste.
Words Gigi · 10 min read
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From your drawing to your room
Between a drawing and a piece of furniture there are three stages no catalogue photograph shows: the drawing marked onto the surface by hand, the metal set into it, and the parts assembled into one.
Gigi · 4 min read