the grain decides
Why the studio builds in treated rubberwood, and why no two pieces will ever match.
Rubberwood spends its first life giving latex. For twenty-five years or more the tree is tapped, season after season, until the flow slows and the plantation replants. The timber that comes down at the end of that life used to be burned. We build with it instead.
Treated properly, rubberwood is dense, stable and surprisingly strong. It takes a chisel cleanly and holds a carved edge. It also carries a genuine grain: knots, tone shifts and markings that no factory board would be allowed to keep.
the stain is applied by hand
On a piece like the Auren console, a deep stain is worked in by hand until the grain comes forward. The wood decides where the colour sits. Two tables from the same batch will land differently, and we let them.
Variations in grain, tone, knots and markings are not imperfections. They are the signature of real wood.
This is the quiet argument of the whole studio: a material with a past makes a better piece than a material with none. When you run a hand over a finished top you can feel the years of it. That is the point.
- Material: eco-friendly treated rubberwood
- Finish: hand-applied stain, waxed and rubbed back
- Every piece one of a kind · made to order in 4 to 6 weeks