Plastic Fantastic
[By Lilam Ramzi in Vogue, October 2018 issue] “I’m based in Ireland, as you can probably tell,” says artist and sculptural furniture-maker Sasha Sykes, her every word inflected with a lilting brogue. She’s phoning from her Dublin studio, where she crafts whimsical plant- and petal-strewn works that betray her origin just as clearly – the yellow gorse flowers, wild roses, and ferns are all foraged from the foothills of the Wicklow mountains by Sykes herself. Her pieces were initially inspired …