BENT Console
Resin rivers guard oak shaped by salt and time.
This console frames Venice’s submerged memory in water and wood.
135 x 35 x H 85 cm — Bespoke Sizes, Shapes and Finishes
2016 — Bensimon Gallery, Paris
Bricola Solid Oak WOOD, Extraclear Polished RESIN – Colorless or Aquamarine –
The Bent Console is born from a single plank of Venetian Briccola oak, its form shaped by the currents, tides, and decades of lagoon life. The natural edges, sculpted by salt and molluscs, remain intact — a testimony to the slow dialogue between water and wood.
Flanking the wood, two bands of transparent resin rise like twin rivers — echoing the water that once enveloped the plank, and now shielding it. These resin borders cradle the wood, sealing its history and preserving its integrity, while capturing bubbles, reflections, and the silent breath of the lagoon.
The console becomes a living shoreline: wood shaped by submerged time, framed and guarded by resins that suggest fluidity even in stillness. The result is an object of silent tension — where the passage of water is both honored and held in quiet form.
More than furniture, the Bent Console is a living fragment of Venice’s underwater realm — where water becomes structure, and structure recalls water.
In the corners, the wood grain meets perfectly, as if bending in a single continuous gesture. Through a special process, even the resin becomes one uninterrupted piece, showing no visible separation between horizontal and vertical planes. This invisible corner joint, developed by alcarol, preserves the purity of form and fluidity of line, and is also suitable for benches, tables, and similar bespoke applications.
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