Bek Hawke On Bespoke Furniture Design

Bek Hawke makes breathtaking modern wooden furniture by hand. Bek is the founder and creator behind Tov & Co. a hand made furniture studio. During our conversation we dive deep into Bek's creative practice and process, starting with her transition from a masters of architecture to starting, from scratch, her own furniture line. Bek shares some of her reasons for doing what she does and her deep love for being thorough and hands on in the process down to every last step and detail. We talk about transitioning to something that is new and unknown, but feels right. Bek shares with us some of her personal learnings when going through a transition or making a creative leap and some of the unique perspectives she has on decision making from a more intuitive rather than purely analytical place. We get into what role stillness, peace and dreams play in her practice and ideation process. Bek's work is just overflowing with meaning and we unpack this as she takes us through beauty, function and meaning, the 3 pillars of her core ethos behind everything that she creates. During our chat we hear about Bek's first two years in business and some of the wisdom gained along the way, including why growing slow and sustainable beats blowing up and going viral any day.  Introducing: Bek Hawke On Bespoke Furniture Design   Bek Hawke tovandco.com @tovandco   Links Groundcrew Agency Ferrier Furniture Google Sketchup Five Mile Radius on OnProcess Britton Timbers     Quotes "I started making furniture just as a hobby because I needed furniture and I didn't have any money."   "What drew me to furniture was I loved doing things with my hands."   "I liked the idea of going back to basics and just knowing everything about what I was doing and knowing it really well."   "Learn how to trust your gut and back yourself"   "Let peace be your guide."   "Beauty, function and meaning. Those are the 3 key areas that I look into in depth with all of my designs.”   "As quickly as you can work out what your strengths are and what you can outsource the minute you can afford to."   "It has to be a sacrifice, you don’t just get to leave a career and start something new and be successful immediately."   "Be ok with slow."   "It's not until you be slow that you can be still enough to listen to yourself and hear the small voice and actually get your finger on what it is you are here for and [what] you're supposed to be doing."   "My process starts with stillness."   -   Original Theme Music by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com   Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

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