"Kodama" is a series of new entries in an ongoing body of works by Lindsey Muscato (b. 1984, Bellflower, CA) and Joshua Friedman (b. 1980, Santa Barbara, CA) of Los Angeles furniture practice Base 10.

The series comprises seven unique large-scale furniture works, constructed of salvaged California redwood (sequoia sempervirens) and composed using the principles, methods, and hand-tools of traditional Japanese wood joinery and timber-framing. The pieces, removed from a would-be architectural context, present themselves as thoughtful, monolithic compositions: elegant exaggerations / distillations of joinery details that showcase a mastery of, and reverence for, material, precedent, and procedure.

The catalog for Base 10’s "Kodama" comprises a mix of charcoal drawings, process photographs, and finished works.

Published on the occasion of "Kodama," at Marta Gallery in Los Angeles, March 7 — May 31, 2020

Published by Marta, 2020

Softcover, saddle-stitched, 24 pages, full color and b&w offset, 10 × 12 inches (folded, 6 × 10 inches)