FUNGI Table
Fungi etched the wood, ice held it still. A fleeting moment of decay, captured forever in a table shaped by time, place, and silence.
270 x 90 x H 75 cm — Bespoke Sizes, Shapes and Finishes
2016
Beech WOOD with FUNGI Texture, Extraclear POLISHED Transparent RESIN, burnished STEEL Legs.
The Fungi Table is made from planks cut from a massive Beech log, recovered in the forests of the Italian Dolomites. This wood was naturally colonized by fungi—silent architects of transformation—whose unique textures and tonal shifts reveal an invisible world at work.
No two pieces are alike. The growth of wood-decay fungi is shaped by exact environmental conditions: the right moment, the right tree, the right decay. These ephemeral patterns are now captured and preserved.
The live edges of the wood are encased in a clear, ice-like resin that halts the fungal process, as if winter had frozen time itself. In this union of decay and preservation, alcarol offers a poetic reflection on change, stillness, and the enduring elegance of nature’s briefest moments.
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