My favourite Greenscape design project to date would have to be the beautiful Woven Wood Wall that we created for the award winning Creations Lounge at the Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre in Edmonton.

Working hand in hand with Mona Foreman from Sheffield Design, we designed a 20’ long by 10’ tall hand crafted piece of art!

The concept was to create an organic, basket woven effect out of wood­—no easy task. Starting with custom fabricated raw birch wood veneer, we spent hours on our hands and knees working to make each piece unique.

We hand-split the veneer pieces to give them a more natural finished edge and then hand-stained them in various shades to give a nice gradation of colour throughout the piece. We rigged cable and wrapped it with birch poles to act as our vertical points at 1’ intervals and then began to weave. After the horizontal pieces were in place, we added accent twigs and moss to create a highly organic, living effect. Upon completion, this was a highly sustainable, eco friendly, high impact art wall manufactured entirely in Canada, using natural Canadian products and renewable girl power.

Mona from Sheffield Design took her inspiration for the lobby and restaurant renovation from the rich culture of the Cree Nations. Her vision is a treat for the senses and is absolutely stunning, with looming 24’ evergreen trees (also provided by us), an enormous dream catcher, vast badlands hoodoos, a 17’ long water wall feature, floating fire pit, and even an art gallery that presents new works throughout the year. This unique space is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen and I am so proud to have been able to be a part of bringing it to life.