Phellem Console

Phellem is the outermost layer of tree bark — a vast living skin that protects, adapts and records the identity of each species. This piece celebrates its extraordinary biodiversity, revealing a botanical richness of colours, textures and patterns that would otherwise remain unseen.
When bark is damaged, the tree releases a complex liquid that hardens into a natural resin, creating a protective barrier against fungi, bacteria and parasites. Inspired by this innate defence, alcarol preserves the bark with a bio-based transparent resin, echoing the tree’s own gesture and freezing every detail as it appeared in its original habitat.
In the Phellem Console, the focus is on a single, large bark surface — a continuous skin that spreads like a natural landscape, allowing its textures to be read like a living map of the tree’s history. The clean, flat layer of resin protects without concealing, letting the viewer encounter the bark in its pure state, intact and uninterrupted.
More than a functional console, it becomes a fragment of forest identity — a rare opportunity to stand before the true scale of nature’s skin, preserved and elevated in contemporary form.