Refractory’s Angie West Throws a Feast Inspired by the American West
The colors and forms of the Mountain West inspired the designer's drama-filled display.
The colors and forms of the Mountain West inspired the designer's drama-filled display.
"This gathering is a stripped-down, Western-style feast," says Angie West, cofounder of Chicago fabrication studio, metal foundry, and glassworks atelier West Supply. Earlier this year, West painted her 1909 colonial revival/Tudor-style home, in Oak Park’s Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District, a charcoal brown. The choice grew out of her current preoccupation with the rugged geological forms, colors, and wildlife of the American West.
A key feature of Angie West’s elaborately organic holiday tablescape is a monumental Scimitar dining table from her brand, Refractory.
Photo by Matt Scherwin
It also informed the recent collection of cast-bronze objects she and business partner Alberto Vélez developed to launch their new design brand, Refractory. "Craftsmanship in objects and artifacts is so closely bound to necessity," West says, "and the material the nature provides." The object’s she’s chosen to include on her table reflect the energy of the brand’s first collection.
Place settings are defined by Alvara Catálan de Ocón Plinto flower stem holders, handcrafted china, and white linens.
Photo by Matt Scherwin
Antler-like candleholders adorn the hearth of an adjacent fireplace.
Photo by Matt Scherwin
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