Ian Laval has been designing and making furniture since 1970. He began in a workshop in northwest England and now has a workshop at Brentwood Bay on Vancouver Island BC.
His furniture is the product of native timber -- mainly hardwoods like Garry and white oak, walnut, Pacific and eastern maple and occasionally BC fir and red and yellow cedar. He has been intensively involved in felling and processing his own wood for most of his career.
Designs are influenced by the nature of indigenous wood and are often developments of traditional forms, with careful use of proportion and emphasis on functionality.
His specialty is the frequent use of sawn veneers taken from the same local trees and processed in the workshop.
Ian Laval welcomes commissions and normally keeps a stock of finished furniture for sale.
Items can be shipped world-wide. Visitors are welcomed.