Transaction Counter Surrounds
Cafes, wine tasting rooms, retail counters often expose the computer and cash drawers of the business to the customer. This project shows a a pair of surrounds before and after from the business side and the after from the public side in this high end tasting room. Made of walnut, aged steel and cast iron brackets, this pair of surrounds shields the computers and business junk from the customer all the while facilitating the use of the mouse and adds a surface for transactions.
Type
- wood
Material
- walnut
- steel
Base
- metal
Function
- computer
Meet the Maker
Jann Eyrich
Citizen Salvage
ME
I’m an artisan/builder which means I make functional pieces from salvage, reclaimed materials and artifacts - artistically - one piece at a time. For the past twenty-five years I've made custom FF+F for commercial interior design projects like cafes and hotel lobbies, wine bars and retail showrooms.
STORY
In addition to the building, I collect and document stories of other artisans who reshape our world from the remains. It's to be a book: Citizen Salvage Truck Farm. The book tells the stories of a revolution; it's a call to dumpster divers, salvage yard seekers and the backroads kind of folk to do the ultimate green thing – reuse + restore, recover + reclaim our material lifelines. This is a shout to history lovers and social activists, high end designers and antique junkies. If you happen to be one of those folks, you'll probably like my stuff.
DESIGN
I believe the work transcends shifting design styles. To call up 'The Big Lebowski', it's not the rug that ties the room together, it's the hand-crafted chair or the table made from workshop 'drop' or boards seasoned in an open field from a fallen barn. It's a table or a lamp adorned with the door pull from an old Ford or an iron grill vent from a coal stove. Simply, my work is a physical story with each piece making the connection between our natural world and what we can’t seem to leave behind.