Boston - June 19, 2007

Natural Light

Birch & Willow

Call it a concrete jungle. Call it noisy and hard to navigate. Just don’t call it unlivable. Because to you, dear urbanite, the city is home.

Still you dream of lush forests and sunlight filtering through leafy canopies. Sounds of waterfalls and sweet bird songs echo in your ears. (Actually, that’s just the nature CD playing at your spa.)

Consider infusing your glass-and-metal world with materials that are a bit more, well, natural. Katherine Ahern, owner and designer of Birch & Willow, can create just the piece at her (brick-surrounded) Fort Point studio.

She’ll fashion one-of-a-kind pendants, sconces, and lamps from bittersweet vines, grapevines, reeds, sea grass, and stones. While aiding the environment by recycling problematic flora, the fixtures transform otherwise sterile spaces into richly shadowed wonderlands.

See? Branching out can be exhilarating.

Birch & Willow, 319 A Street, floor 4, Fort Point Channel (617-423-3437 or birchandwillow.com).