WOODPILE Shelving
Three mossy planks, barely touching, in a quiet defiance of gravity where structure vanishes, and lightness becomes a forest poised in air.
190 x 40 x H 90 cm — Bespoke Sizes, Shapes and Finishes
2014 — Mint Gallery, London
Solid WOOD, Natural MOSSES, Extraclear Polished RESIN, burnished STEEL rods.
Woodpile Shelving is a sculptural structure composed of three moss-edged planks recovered from the undergrowth of the Dolomite forest. Stripped to its bare essence, it balances tension and transparency in a refined dialogue between apparent fragility and actual strength.
The wooden surfaces seem to hover, held in place by just three slender steel rods that pierce them vertically. Hidden inside the planks, a subtle mechanism locks the rods seamlessly, giving the illusion of a single uninterrupted line and granting the entire piece unexpected stability.
This shelving system echoes the quiet resistance of trees swaying in the wind — weightless yet grounded, minimal yet alive. Its tool-free assembly and visual levity suggest not only function, but a gesture of stillness suspended in space. A forest reimagined as pure equilibrium.
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