WETLAND Relic

A wetland is a water-shaped ecosystem where, in rare conditions, nature can preserve wood for thousands of years. Abonos—a Celtic name for this semi-fossilized wetland timber—originates from ancient Alpine riverbeds, where submerged trunks rested beneath layers of sediments. Over centuries, minerals, iron and water bonded with the wood’s tannins, hardening its structure and colouring its grain through an extraordinary chromatic spectrum that shifts from golden notes to deep black, with shades that are never alike.
Recovered through careful, meticulous work, this ancestral material resurfaces like a jewel of the past, revealing the marks of time and the silent memory of flowing water. The console embraces and frames these organic forms, preserving their essence and letting their unique story remain visible.
Below, slender metaphysical legs rise like impossible pillars or dreamlike stilts, holding matter and time in suspension. They elevate the ancient wood as if it were a relic emerging from a submerged world—an artifact of nature, lifted and revealed, yet still connected to the flow that shaped it.
The result is a console where nature, memory and structure coexist: the ancestral body of the wood above, and beneath it, the stillness of pillars that suspend time—an encounter between what once moved and what now endures.