MERCURY BUREAU
We design limited-edition objects that emerge from an experimental studio practice. We also love to collaborate on projects with like-minded brands, shops, and designers.
Previous Image:
Stoppage Vessels—an edition of glass vases that use a single steel mould that constantly changes shape.
Following images:
Letter Opener in sand-cast and hand-polished manganese bronze—cast from a hand-carved wood form.
Perimeter Pavilion
detail showing the solid oak frame and cotton cladding.
Stoppage Vessels—an edition of glass vases that use a single steel mould that constantly changes shape.
Following images:
Letter Opener in sand-cast and hand-polished manganese bronze—cast from a hand-carved wood form.
Perimeter Pavilion
detail showing the solid oak frame and cotton cladding.
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K le Guin
Ursula K le Guin
A leaf a gourd
a shell a net a bag
a sling a sack
a bottle a pot a box
a container.
A holder.
A recipient.
a shell a net a bag
a sling a sack
a bottle a pot a box
a container.
A holder.
A recipient.
Drawing from a background in art and geology, we create focused, sculptural objects that achieve complex results with the simplest means.
Previous Image:
35mm photoshoot outtake by Lauren Kolyn
Following images:
Lighting the Drift Incense Holder in a photograph by Lauren Kolyn, with art direction by Alley Kurgan.
Two members of the PEBBLE & the STONE, a family of five sand-cast and hand-polished bronze flora blocks.
35mm photoshoot outtake by Lauren Kolyn
Following images:
Lighting the Drift Incense Holder in a photograph by Lauren Kolyn, with art direction by Alley Kurgan.
Two members of the PEBBLE & the STONE, a family of five sand-cast and hand-polished bronze flora blocks.
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K le Guin
Ursula K le Guin
I would go so far to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.
Previous image:
Stoppage Vessels, based on Three Standard Stoppages by Marcel Duchamp, with forms ranging from geometric to organic.
Stoppage Vessels, based on Three Standard Stoppages by Marcel Duchamp, with forms ranging from geometric to organic.
Mercury Bureau
has been featured online and in print by The Globe and Mail, Interni, Travel + Leisure, Elle Decor Italy, Azure, Design-Milk, Dezeen, Inhabitat, Details / Huffinton Post, Nykinen, Curbed, and Sight Unseen.