Provincial Essays

Bombast Furniture

Book Design
Digital Archive Development

2020-

Marked by an engagement with the modernist legacy, the Bombast product line is perhaps best understood as the material trace of what is in many ways a very personal learning curve. When we began in this business, we were too young and too inexperienced to know that our dream — participation in a global design culture — was “impossible” from the relative isolation that is our Vancouver home. That we are still at it remains a function of our unwillingness to accept the obvious.

Goodweather is delighted to be working with Russell Baker, founder and principle designer of Bombast Furniture, on a monograph cataloging nearly 30 years of work as a furniture designer and manufacturer in Vancouver.