Undergrowth is a design collection born from an intimate exploration of the Dolomite forest: a hidden world of trees, mosses, lichens, bark, and small plants that often go unnoticed, yet carry the silent memory of place and season.
alcarol has recovered fallen logs and discarded tree sections from the Dolomite undergrowth — pieces usually left behind by forestry practices that follow precise local regulations. Irregular and unsawn, these fragments are often considered waste, yet they are the most alive: still wrapped in bark, still bearing the native growths of a living forest.
Before these delicate organisms could vanish, alcarol preserved them in a transparent resin that resembles the water which once nourished them, capturing their fleeting presence in a state of suspended vitality.
Each object becomes a cross-section of an ephemeral ecosystem, where sedimented time, forest matter, and quiet biodiversity converge. The result is a series of living maps, tangible memories of a landscape in constant transformation.
Undergrowth reinterprets the invisible terrain beneath our feet, turning what is usually lost into a lasting presence, a dialogue between the transitory and the eternal.
