Backwoods Art wine racks.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

After working "90 hours a week" in grocery merchandising on the l-70 corridor, Kendall VonFeldt wanted to work for herself. Inspired by the dead trees on land she bought north of Steamboat, she quit and launched Backwoods Art in 2007. Today she makes wine racks and log "mini-bars" from wood she sources from public lands in northern Colorado. "I only use dead standing trees," VonFeldt says. "I hand-select each log. The contours of the tree guide the design." The end products range from a two-bottle...