Bentwood Inn

It may be Halloween at home, but one won't see many Halloween decorations here. A few places like Monoprix have already started carrying items for Noel, but I've only seen one Halloween display in a window somewhere--I think it was a bookshop. Although ...

... due for a makeover.  But everything was functional and clean.  My desk chair is a fabulous example of bentwood plywood furniture.  The prefabricated unit bathroom is literally a step above the norm--there is one steep ...

... do some shallow diving today, so it's off to the dive boat where we dove the French Reef, Christmas Tree Reef and the Bentwood wreck.  What else can be said except that it was another good day of diving. Buster stayed back at the houseboat where he ...

... and airy museum, devoted to the local First Nations.  It was filled with carvings; serving dishes, totems, panels and bentwood boxes; some pieces were over a century old, others were modern works.  The workmanship was very detailed, and although ...

... one of the Kwakwaka'wakw people, and he invited us down to his workshop.  He had just finished a commission for two bentwood boxes.  The colours were bright and fresh, the carving incredibly precise.  The boxes were destined to go to Sweden, ...