Warm/Wild Wood

Abstract

HOT TAKE A warm touch and, more generally, an intimate bodily relation to these objects and the material properties of different wood species are essential to both their making and use. Each proposal is situated within a lineage of localized radiant heating—foot stoves, warming pans, bed warmers, bainmaries, warming tables, and water bottles. These typologies have been relegated to the past as conventional forced air systems succeeded in creating monotonous indoor space. If “the machine is always social before it is technical,” then these