RAPOLANO Dining Table

Around three million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, the Chianti hills overlooked an ancient sea that stretched southeast, shaping the land we know today. That body of water acted as a vast sedimentary basin, slowly depositing fragments of rock, sand, and clay – layer upon layer – in rhythms dictated by the tides.
As the sea gradually withdrew, it left behind a stratified memory of its presence: clays, sandstones, and conglomerates, all bearing the marks of shifting lagoons, coastal shores, and shallow marine beds. Over time, wind and water sculpted these deposits, etching the surface of the earth into what now resembles a petrified, storm-swept sea.
The town of Rapolano, nestled in the Sienese hills, became known for its thermal springs since Roman times, and for the distinctive Travertine formed by millennia of geological alchemy.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol has recovered fragments of this ancient stone — marked by erosion and sediment — and preserved their natural cavities in a crystal-clear resin that evokes the waters in which they once lay submerged.
The Rapolano Dining Table is more than a surface — it is a sculpted fragment of geological time and territory. A seamless union of raw history and contemporary design, where nature’s slow craftsmanship becomes eternal, as a timeless landscape, both ancient and new.