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Violet Tide: rollerball pen, deep violet resin cast around a golden burl island

Pens · Rollerball pen

Violet Tide

The burl sits like a shoreline in a violet sea; turn it in the hand and the tide moves.

Form
Rollerball pen
Material
Deep violet resin cast around a golden burl island
Hardware
Polished chrome with a chased rosette finial
Edition
One of one. Never repeated.

This piece is from the studio archive. Because no two blanks are alike, it will never be made again, but William can make you one in its spirit: the same form, a material with its own story.

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Lava & Ash: rollerball pen in molten-orange resin poured against grey, smoke-figured burl
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Lava & Ash

Fire meets ash: the resin was poured to flow into the burl's grain like lava into a cooling field.

Desert Lattice: matched pen pair, presented in a case in cholla cactus skeleton filled with jewel-toned resin
Matched pen pair, presented in a case

Desert Lattice

Cholla is the skeleton a desert cactus leaves behind. Each opening is filled by hand, so no two lattices ever match.

Kingfisher Desk Set: fountain pen, rollerball and letter opener set in turquoise resin and natural burl
Fountain pen, rollerball and letter opener set

Kingfisher Desk Set

Three pieces cut from the same story: the colour of a kingfisher's wing set against the burl it perches on.

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