The infinity panel installation is a panel made up of multiples of one square - the flax square.

> Tile sitting in relief off the wall. Individually the squares measure 18 x 18 x 6cm
> Endless layout opportunities
> Ideal for larger corporate or hospitality fit-out
> Rich glaze plays with light reflection when spot light
> Customized colour glazes
> Well received in recent showing at the International Contemporary Furniture
...Fair in New York (May 2008), by essenze (of Parnell)
> Finalist in the ICFF Design Awards for Wall Design

"The flax bush is woven into the fabric of human history in New Zealand.
No fibre plant was more important to Maori than flax.
Each pa or marae typically had a pa harakeke or flax plantation.

Harakeke or Phormium tenax (being one of many types of flax) grows in vigorous wild bushes almost anywhere around the country.

My walks on windy cliffs above the black sands on Auckland's west coast are coloured by the groves
of huge broad leaves swaying and dancing to the whistling wind.

I have tried to distil a sense of the abundance and energy of the native flora, with it's endless variation of texture.

The Flax Square tumbled across a wall reflects the pattern of the weave of the handmade flax object.
The repetition of form begins to reflect the abundance and energy of the New Zealand flora.
The twisting wave like movement of the giant kelp and the foaming swirl of sea and cloud."

Bob Steiner

Flax Square: Infinity Panel

The panel nominated for an Award as displayed by essenze of Parnell at the 2008
International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York 17 May
http://www.essenze.co.nz/designstore.cfm?aid=42&cid=0&pr=0&pid=467&srow=1&fav=0