For this collaboration, we brought in Vladimir Krasnogorov, a woodworker who's spent his life chasing one idea: that wood, shaped by hand, can look like it grew that way rather than being built. You may already know his work, even without knowing his name. Vladimir designed his first-ever chandelier to fill an empty booth at a trade show—and it ended up in Gwyneth Paltrow's home, landing on the cover of Architectural Digest.

As a child, Vladimir learned woodworking in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in his father's home workshop, and taught himself the rest. He found, in his words, "the freedom to create" once he moved to the United States, and that freedom shapes everything he makes now. "All of my designs are organic," he says, "the way every plant on earth is perfect in shape and proportion." We were struck by that the moment we met him; by what one person could do with a piece of wood and a steady hand.

In the beginning, Vladimir brought us a single wood sconce, designed to stand on its own. Our team saw a different possibility in it—the same idea behind our own Centric wall light, where adjustable arms let one shade become several. That possibility became Pothos, and the starting point for everything else here: carved wood set against our own brass, steel, and alabaster.