You’re invited to a tour of Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project with co-curator Toby Barratt of Propellor Studio.
In collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, the exhibition celebrates the creativity and craft of Vancouver’s design community while engaging with questions central to the role of design in advancing sustainability as well as social and environmental justice.
The idea for Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project was born out of a desire to honour the reclaimed mahogany and the places from which it originated. The Mahogany Project hosts a diverse group of 31 emerging and seasoned local designers and makers who created 22 objects made from vintage mahogany. The exhibition features a wide array of design objects from furniture, lighting and household objects, to jewellry and much more!
Come and hear from Toby about local sustainable design and how this exciting exhibition came to be! After the tour, folks are free to explore the exhibition and chat with Toby.
Spots are limited! Register early.
Date: Sunday, February 11, 2024
Time: 1:30 – 2:30pm
Tickets: (Plus fees and taxes)
$25 General Admission
$15 Seniors (65+), Students, Indigenous People & MOV Members
Please arrive early to sign in for the tour. Meeting point will be in the lobby by the main exhibition doors.
Mahogany Art for Sale:
Works created by designers for the exhibition are for sale. A portion of the sales will be donated to support Indigenous-led reforestation efforts in Central America, where the mahogany was extracted in the last century. Click here to read more about the items for sale and how you can purchase them.
Meet your tour guide
Toby Barratt
Toby is a partner and designer at Propellor, a multi-disciplinary art and design studio based in Strathcona. Propellor’s work spans a broad range of disciplines from lighting and furniture design to exhibition design and sculpture. Toby Barratt, Pamela Goddard and Nik Rust became creative allies while studying sculpture at Emily Carr University and formed Propellor in 2000 with the intent of combining their skills as artists and designers.
about propellor studio
From Vancouver is Awesome profile with Toby Barratt.
Propellor thrives on creative challenges that allow them to blur the boundaries between art and design and combine their love of sculpture with their skills as designers and makers. There are common threads that run through all of their work; an interest in the forms and systems of the natural world, a passion for uncovering an idiosyncratic beauty in the objects they design and a desire to make work that will last well into the future.
Propellor’s lighting work and sculpture hangs in public spaces, hotels, restaurants, boutiques and private residences around the world. Their design, as well as their sculptural work, is regularly shown in museums in Canada and abroad.
Please note: Photographs and/or video will be taken at this event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organizers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications. If you do not wish to be photographed please inform an event organizer.