Incollect Magazine - Issue 6

Incollect Magazine 79 18 | The Second Overtone byMiriam Carpenter Moderne Gallery The Second Overtone console was designed in 2021 by Miriam Carpenter, a RISD alumna who began her career designing alongside Mira Nakashima at the George Nakashima Woodworkers in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Made with a spalted maple top, and carved maple base with lovely patinated bronze stand-offs, it pays homage to her material of choice and the focus of all of her work—wood. As she explains, “No matter how long one has worked with wood or how intimately one knows the material, each piece from each tree has its own experience and characteristics uniquely formed by its geographical location, the effects of the seasons, wind, rain, what grew beside it, what pathogens were present, and how it was cut and dried.”