The Globe and Mail

'I hope this story won't be too personal," Brad Cameron, the award-winning Vancouver architect and furniture designer, says over green tea in his Kitsilano apartment. "I tend to want my work to speak for itself." And so it does. Robust and masculine, his Axis collection of dining, side and console tables consists of striking, singular pieces made of wood, steel, glass and stone. A more recent line, the Still collection, is made from salvaged British Columbia fir and features thick sections of wood carefully interlocked at the joints. As in the creations of Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, one of Cameron's design heroes and another architect who designed furniture, there is a sublime, almost Zen union of form and function in Cameron's work. The sturdy yet streamlined quality of his furnishings also extends to his latest architectural offering: a prefab structure he calls the Still House.