"My client had brought these carved handles back from her travels. They reminded me of some Guancha rock carvings I had seen on La Palma, a small island in the Canaries.

It gave me the idea of carving into the Oswaxed surface of the MDF".

We also wanted to get away from the flat rectangular block shape that MDF encourages. After all it's a descendent of older compacted materials such as Papier Mache or Adobe and in the Formaldehyde free version is no more harmful!