Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Nicholas Bijan Pourfard has \u201calways built things\u201d, says the 33-year-old San Diego-based woodworker. \u201cI started small,\u201d he says on Zoom, sitting on the sunny terrace of his home. \u201cSpoons, dice and skate ramps for me and my friends when I was into skateboarding. Then I got injured and was out of action for six months. I felt the pressure to do something with my time, so I began creating guitars from retired skateboards.\u201dA video posted to YouTube documenting the making process went viral. Today, his company Prisma Guitars specialises in striking, psychedelic-looking instruments (from $2,500), made from seven colour-dyed plies of hard rock maple pressed together. \u201cThey\u2019re completely one of a kind,\u201d he says.\u00a0It was another injury that pushed his foray into furniture, however: he cut off two of his fingers in a woodworking accident. \u201cThey stitched them back on, but for a while I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d ever work again.\u201d The recovery period afforded him time to hone new designs, develop the manufacturing side of the business and expand into furniture and lighting, which he started selling a few years ago after a lucky lunch meeting in New York.\u00a0\u00a0They stitched my fingers back on, but for a while I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d ever work again\u201cI\u2019d been making chairs and other objects privately,\u201d he recalls, \u201cand was sitting at a communal table in Chinatown, when I started chatting about a new lamp design to the woman next to me. She happened be a designer called Christie Ward, who was working for Soho House. She ordered four of five prototypes on the spot.\u201d The ceramic Mushroom lamp ($850) is now one of his best-sellers; also popular is the Tall Boy chair ($1,650) crafted from sustainable hardwoods and leather.And Prada has given him its stamp of approval \u2013 while filming an eyewear campaign featuring his guitars at his home, the brand also focused on some early lamp and chair prototypes they saw there. He has furnished the LA offices of fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen (the Erewhon of bowl food) with his Anything stackable swivel-back chairs ($850) and collaborated with luxury retailer SSENSE. Meanwhile, Prisma Guitars thrives, with a line of guitar accessories including limited-edition pickups (from $205).His latest project is perhaps his most personal, derived from a 15-year-old pile of Iranian dirt. \u201cMy father was born in Iran,\u201d he says. \u201cYears ago, he bought land on Kish Island [a resort in the Persian Gulf] and loved the quality of the earth there. He wanted to start a mud-mask company and managed to ship a couple of palettes back to the States.\u201d Yet the project was abandoned due to logistics issues.\u00a0One day, Pourfard discovered the insect-ridden earth under some tarp in his father\u2019s garage. \u201cHe had tried to get rid of it during one of his spring-cleaning bursts. We have this creek by our house and I found him throwing it in there, but something made me intervene. I just had this feeling that we could do something with it.\u201dPourfard tested several pieces in a kiln to discover they were ceramic. The result is a beautiful 24 x 30 x 10-inch red-wood wall cabinet, its fa\u00e7ade and interior drawers embellished with clay. He even roped in another member of the family, his 90-year-old paternal grandfather, to help mould the clay into fittings for its door. As his grandfather \u2013 who was visiting from Iran \u2013 doesn\u2019t speak English, it was a pretty straightforward design process: \u201cThe pieces needed to be simple enough to communicate through hand gestures.\u201d The pair settled on a pebble shape, with each piece bearing one of their thumbprints.Pourfard is now toying with the idea of a dresser and a contemporary take on a Persian bone box, which is traditionally used for keepsakes. It\u2019s become a great way to connect with his heritage. \u201cI\u2019ve never been to Iran,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u2019s funny that I only touched the earth my father collected there back here in California. This was my attempt at trying to understand myself from afar.\u201d The pieces turned out exactly as he wanted. \u201cThen there is the fact I was able to immortalise my relationship with my grandpa in this piece. I have his literal thumbprint,\u201d he concludes. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d\u00a0@nbijanpourfard, nbijan.design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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