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"I really like the design process and doing custom work, but it's very difficult to make a living at it," says Vancouver-based designer Glenn Ross, who's got a rather unusual career arc. After he found a wood-bending vacuum press and some woodoworking tools at an auction, he began using them to produce furniture in earnest; but it was his dog that led him to success.

"It was one of those epiphanies, staring at that ugly pet feeder," Ross now says, referring to Oliver's food dish and all the crusty grossness and mucky floor gunk left behind when a big dog sticks his snout into a pile of Alpo in the corner of the kitchen.

Sensing there might be a market for a pet food dish not quite so hard to look at, he designed and built a stylish raised feeder fashioned out of bamboo, maple, cherry and wenge veneer, as well as hammered aluminum. The feeders come in a variety of sizes, with stainless steel bowls.

Ross' creations were good enough for Architectural Digest's "Great Design Issue," and his eye-catching WoWo collection is, if you'll pardon the expression, the cat's meow. Check out his full line here, and read the full article here.

via vancouver sun