Barlas Baylar is a New York City furniture designer who is well known for his minimalist conceptions that blend natural elements with modern aesthetics. To walk through his showrooms at Hudson Furniture is to step into a world where nature has been re-imagined by architecture, the 21st Century yearning for the preceding millennia. There one can witness the evolution of chandeliers, tables, bed frames and their headboards. Metal, wood, glass, and stone are reinterpreted to furnish civilization. Barlas Baylar chain chandeliers with softly curving waves of metallic piping trace the descent of light through glass strands that drip like clothing fringe. The bittersweet majesty of expiring trees is captured forever in solid slabs serving as seats. Then there are the accessories that seem at once both stone and wood – petrified wood, of course. Yet all the floor examples only hint at the hustle of Baylar’s busy NYC workshop.

Twenty-four craftsmen help transform the Barlas Baylar vision into utilitarian artwork which grace celebrity apartments and upscale boutiques alike. Each piece is unique, with no two exactly alike. With a background in production design and hailing from a family tradition rooted in machinery manufacturing, Baylar founded Hudson Furniture to make use of all-natural antiquated materials modernized with industrial detail to make for organic structures that transform interiors into exteriors by suggesting a universe of ideas without. Surfaces are not simply sanded down, but burnished by hand with broken glass to reveal nature’s own eternal handiwork beneath.

Concern for nature influences Baylar’s work, and not simply admiration of her. He is devoted to the conservation of nature, and uses only sustainable materials for his consoles, panels, sofas, mirrors, and everything else ever created. Dead or dying lumber is used exclusively, domestically sourced from salvaged arbor wind or storm-damaged. Preferred species include Claro Walnut, Black Walnut, Myrtle, Jasmine, Acacia, Satinwood, and Ebonized Pine removed by owners such as farmers to prevent damage to houses or other trees. Nothing goes to waste. Leftover scraps and cuttings of every irregularity are integrated into every design. And with the connections developed through family ties and personal experience in various industries, his company is able to ensure the origins of its materials, even going so far as to seek the approval of embassies and consulates when importing necessary materials. Indeed, Hudson Furniture is proud to be New York’s sole repository for legally harvested petrified wood. Thus Baylar’s geometric forms, traditional joinery techniques, and hand-rubbed oil finishes can continue to return to the nature from which it emerges to grace civilization.

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