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About Lit Form

Where Nature and Design Converge

Lit Form was born out of the tension between nature’s raw imperfection and the precision of craft. Each piece begins not in a studio, but in the open landscape; along California’s coasts and riverbeds, where artist Davis Flanders hand-selects fragments of driftwood shaped by tide, time, and exposure. What once drifted forgotten becomes the foundation of a sculptural dialogue between light and form.

Back in the studio, these salvaged pieces undergo a slow, intuitive process. Flanders cleans, sands, scrapes, and layers the surfaces with solvents until the wood reveals its sun-worn color and elemental texture; soft matte greys, pale beige tones, and the natural traces of water and wind. Each curve or split is studied before it’s paired with hand-forged iron. Creating candle holders that don’t impose on the material but complete it, the two elements balancing tension and stillness, weight and air.

The result is a collection of functional sculptures: sconces that double as light sources and as organic wall art. A single taper or pillar candle transforms the work, the flicker of flame activating the surface, tracing shadows that mirror the wood’s original movement through water and wind. In daylight, the sconces read as minimalist relics; at night, they awaken, animating the space around them with quiet drama.

But Lit Form is more than an object line. It’s a meditation on transformation; on how light defines matter, and how design can honor natural impermanence rather than conceal it. No two pieces are ever replicated. Each carries its own rhythm of erosion, a record of weather, and the subtle human touch that frames it for the modern home.

Lit Form exists at the intersection of art and utility, designed for those who see their interiors as living environments rather than static rooms. Its ethos values the trace of the hand, the endurance of the handmade, and the serenity of imperfect symmetry.