Despite being active on various artistic fields, he found his mission in designing and making wood creations. Not long ago the small business AM Unique arose from his passion for his hobby. The use of partially or fully natural, scrap or recycled wood materials, such as wood offcuts, scrap doors, hayracks, old barns, driftwood, used building materials, natural forest remnants and worn wood, is the
thread running through all the products by AM Unique. He uses a small shop to create and design different wooden products according to his momentary inspiration and material availability. To name only a few of them: picture and mirror frames, wooden USB flash drives, custom built furniture, chests and jewelry boxes, soap dishes, coffee tables, chairs, lamp stands, playground equipment and many more. Custom and special request products also available. Aleš’s inspiration and his creative assistant is his girlfriend Alja Markelj. She is a graduate from Environmental Sciences and devotes her time to collecting wood material, tailoring as well as designing unique lamps from waste plywood, ceramics and other natural materials. The business AM Unique endeavors and believes that beautiful and useful products can be made out of seemingly useless and waste materials. Everyone deserves a second chance. So does wood.
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Življenjepis
Aleš Mlakar je vsestranski umetnik, ki je, kljub udejstvovanju na različnih ustvarjalnih področjih, našel svoje poslanstvo v ustvarjanju iz lesa. Tako je pred nedavnim iz velike ljubezni do hobija nastalo malo podjetje AM Unique. Rdeča nit podjetja AM Unique je v ustvarjanju različnih izdelkov delno ali v celoti iz naravnih, odpadnih in recikliranih lesenih materialov, kot so: lesni odpadki pri proizvodnji, odpadna stara vrata, kozolci, ostanki skednjev, naplavljen les, ostanki gradbenega materiala, lesni ostanki iz gozda ter odsluženi leseni izdelki. V majhni delavnici nastajajo različni izdelki, oblikovani glede na trenutni navdih in razpoložljivost materialov, med njimi: leseni okvirji za slike in ogledala, leseni USB ključki, unikatno pohištvo po meri, skrinjice in šatulje, podstavki za mila, mizice, stoli, stojala za luči, otroška igrala in mnogi drugi. Izdelujejo tudi izdelke po naročilu in željah posameznih strank. Alešu je v navdih in pomoč pri ustvarjanju njegova punca Alja Markelj, po izobrazbi univ. ekolog, ki se poleg zbiranja lesnega materiala posveča tudi šiviljskim podvigom in izdelovanju unikatnih svetil iz odpadnega furnirja, odpadne keramike ter drugih naravnih materialov. Podjetje AM Unique stremi in verjame, da se iz navidezno neuporabnih odpadkov in odsluženih materialov, lahko ustvarijo lepi in uporabni izdelki. Vsakdo si zasluži drugo priložnost. Tudi les.
