Coffee Tables – alcarol https://alcarol.com Matter as a silent archive. Design as suspended moment where place and time converge Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:52:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alcarol.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/alcarol-favico-100x100.png Coffee Tables – alcarol https://alcarol.com 32 32 AEOLIE Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/aeolie-coffee-table/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:45:58 +0000 https://alcarol.com/?post_type=product&p=11326 The Aeolie Coffee Table evokes a volcanic formation emerging from the depths, where lava meets water and solidifies in suspended time. The stone retains the marks of rapid cooling — irregular, porous, alive with internal tension — while the transparent resin surrounds it like a liquid field, preserving the moment of contact.

The surface appears to hover within this transparent volume, as if still immersed, while the bronzed steel base provides a subtle grounding — a horizon between seabed and open space.

The object becomes a landscape shaped by opposing forces: a fragment of territory born underwater, where matter has found balance between expansion and containment.

]]> STUMP Stool _ Walnut https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-walnut/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:43:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-walnut/ alcarol recovered a stunning walnut log and decided to cut it in two, in order to create a couple of stump stools. The two halves perfectly match, recreating the original log as it was found in the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains.
The alcarol’s environmental cross-section allows to reveal the intimate essence of wood, hidden in the heart of the log. Natural bark surface is preserved with its native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the material’s cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.
The section planes – through touch, sight and olfaction of different materials – allow to transcend the ordinary perception of a place. ]]> ANCHOR Colorless Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/anchor-colorless-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/anchor-colorless-stool/ alcarol’s main action is sectioning — cutting through matter and time to reveal what lies beneath.
The very foundations of Venice rest upon thousands of oak poles, driven deep into the lagoon’s caranto layer — a compact mixture of clay and sand that has held the city for centuries.
During their long immersion, these timbers are sculpted by Teredo Navalis, the small marine organisms that draw delicate constellations of holes across the surface, leaving the core intact. Their slow work traces the passage of life through wood, shaping a fragile equilibrium between erosion and endurance.
When replaced by new poles, these wooden fragments — imbued with water, salt, and memory — become witnesses of a millennial sedimentation.
For the creation of Anchor, alcarol dove into the canals of Venice to study this submerged world, capturing its essence through a section that freezes a living cross-section of the Lagoon.
Through a patented process, the empty spaces carved by shipworms are filled with a transparent resin that embodies the very water in which the wood once lived.
This still, crystalline layer arrests the flow of time, like a photograph in three dimensions — a solid water that preserves the traces of an underwater landscape unique in the world.
Anchor is a fragment of Venice itself, shaped by the patient rhythm of tides and rendered eternal in its final, translucent layer.

]]> LEAFPRINT Low Table B https://alcarol.com/collections/imprint-collection/leafprint-low-table-b/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/leafprint-low-table-b/ Made from a gem-shaped volume in copper-plated steel – inspired by the prismatic structures of metallic minerals – the Leafprint Low Table embodies the timeless dialogue between the fleeting nature of the organic world and the enduring essence of inorganic matter.
The plant world is rich in tannins, natural compounds that react with metals to form oxides and surface patinas. Real leaves and underwood plant fragments are immersed in tannin-based solutions and oxidizing agents to accelerate and control natural oxidation, interacting with the metal to create one-of-a-kind textures and patinas with organic, ever-changing hues.
The mirrored copper surfaces, marked by organic imprints, play with light and depth, producing a dynamic effect that shifts with the gaze and the surrounding environment.

]]> LEAFPRINT Coffee Table C https://alcarol.com/collections/imprint-collection/leafprint-coffee-table-c/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/leafprint-coffee-table-c/ Made from a gem-shaped volume in copper-plated steel – inspired by the prismatic structures of metallic minerals – the Leafprint Coffee Table embodies the timeless dialogue between the fleeting nature of the organic world and the enduring essence of inorganic matter.
The plant world is rich in tannins, natural compounds that react with metals to form oxides and surface patinas. Real leaves and underwood plant fragments are immersed in tannin-based solutions and oxidizing agents to accelerate and control natural oxidation, interacting with the metal to create one-of-a-kind textures and patinas with organic, ever-changing hues.
The mirrored copper surfaces, marked by organic imprints, play with light and depth, producing a dynamic effect that shifts with the gaze and the surrounding environment.

]]> LEAFPRINT Trio https://alcarol.com/collections/imprint-collection/leafprint-trio/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/leafprint-trio/ A trio of mirrored metal objects, seemingly imprinted by a long stay in the forest and shrouded in ancestral mystery, embodies the timeless dialogue between the fleeting nature of the organic world and the apparent eternity of inorganic matter.
The shapes of the collection draw inspiration from the prismatic structures of metallic minerals, and the finish is born from an experimental process in which metal enters into dialogue with nature through oxidation processes.
The plant world is rich in tannins, natural compounds that react with metals to form oxides and surface patinas. Real leaves and underwood plant fragments are immersed in tannin-based solutions and oxidizing agents to accelerate and control natural oxidation, interacting with the metal to create one-of-a-kind textures and patinas with organic, ever-changing hues.
The mirrored copper surfaces, marked by organic imprints, play with light and depth, producing a dynamic effect that shifts with the gaze and surrounding environment.
]]> Palette Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/phellem-collection/palette-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/palette-side-table/ Phellem is the outermost layer of tree bark, a living skin rich in colour, texture and memory. The Palette Side Table becomes a tribute to this extraordinary biodiversity, unveiling a natural spectrum of tones and patterns that would otherwise remain unnoticed.
Just as ancient wood inlay sought the most diverse essences to expand expressive possibilities, alcarol composes a new botanical mosaic, selecting bark from different species and revealing its astonishing polymorphism, as unique as a fingerprint, shaped by habitat, genetics, and time.
When bark is wounded, a natural defence intervenes: a liquid resin hardens on contact with air, sealing and protecting the vital layers beneath. In the same spirit, alcarol preserves each fragment with a bio-based transparent resin, freezing its surface as it appears in nature and allowing every grain, crack and pigment to remain intact.
The table top emerges like a precious jewel, an inlaid composition of living matter, set and framed by the burnished steel structure that supports it. The contrast between the organic mosaic and the refined metal evokes a piece of high jewellery, where nature is not ornament, but protagonist.
Through this piece, bark is elevated from overlooked skin to botanical treasure: a celebration of biodiversity, preserved, honoured and made timeless.

]]> RAPOLANO _ Coffee Table _ Limited Edition https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/rapolano-_-coffee-table-_-limited-edition/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/rapolano-_-coffee-table-_-limited-edition/ Around three million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, the Chianti hills overlooked a vast inland sea. Waters stretched southeast for nearly 80 kilometers, gradually depositing sediments that would form layers of clays, sandstones, and conglomerates — shaped by time, tides, and the quiet rhythm of geological transformation.
As the sea withdrew, it left behind a stratified memory of its presence. A petrified stormy seascape sculpted by erosion, where wind and water carved the land into a deep, textural relief. Among the remnants of this ancient sea lies Rapolano, famed for its thermal springs and its travertine, a stone imbued with history and mineral poetry.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol has recovered fragments of this eroded travertine, preserving their voids and textures with a crystal-clear resin that evokes the water they once lay in, still, translucent, and blue.
The Rapolano Coffee Table is not only a functional object, but a sculptural landscape. The stone seems to rise from a sea of shifting hues — from pale aqua to the inky depths of blue — like a miniature ocean frozen in time. It is a fragment of territory and deep time, where the material memory of the Earth meets the clarity of design. A timeless sea, scaled to human intimacy.

]]> POPLAR Low Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/poplar-low-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/poplar-low-coffee-table/ The Poplar Low Coffee Table is a meditation on human perception, an interplay between organic imperfection and visual illusion. It challenges the way we understand material, balance, and structure.
The tabletop is composed of two almost specular planks of rare Burled Poplar, a wood whose grain swirls in unpredictable, dreamlike patterns. This deformation is entirely natural, yet so intricate and unfamiliar that it seems designed by hand, though no human could have imagined it.
The live edges of the planks are preserved and joined in a transparent resin, suspended without contact, as if the wood were hovering. Four clear acrylic pillars pierce the structure and hold it in place with precise balance, a composition that appears both impossible and weightless.
The result is a sculptural paradox: earthy and ethereal, familiar and alien. A dialogue between nature’s chaos and the clarity of form.

]]> FUNGI Rectangular Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-rectangular-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-rectangular-coffee-table/ Recovered from the Italian Dolomite forest, the Fungi Table is crafted from a large Beech log marked by native fungal activity — each line and shadow a silent record of time, place, and transformation. The live edges are encased in an extra-clear resin that evokes the winter ice once halting the fungi’s growth, preserving a fleeting natural process in stillness.
The plank has been cut with a fine blade and rejoined with precise alignment of the fungal woodgrain, forming an L-shape with corners so seamless that both wood and resin appear uninterrupted. Through a proprietary process, alcarol creates a single, continuous volume — a solid trace of ephemeral life. This invisible joinery can be adapted for various typologies: tables, benches, shelves, and beyond.
Each piece is unique — a quiet testament to the living conditions that shaped it, and to the poetry of transformation hidden in decay.

]]> STUMP Stool _ Mulberry https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-mulberry/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-mulberry/ This stool is crafted from a discarded mulberry log found in the wetlands of the Dolomites. Its rough bark and living surface, still inhabited by native mosses and small plants, are preserved in a clear resin that echoes the waters once surrounding it.
Filling its natural voids with resin, alcarol captures the final moment before the material’s return to the earth. What was once forgotten becomes a fragment of time made tangible — a small monument to decay, transformation, and the silent resilience of the forest floor.

]]> STUMP Stool _ Chestnut https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-chestnut/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-chestnut/ The Stump Stool – Chestnut is made from a discarded burled chestnut log, recovered from a wetland in the Dolomite foothills. Its bark still hosts native mosses and plants, now preserved beneath a transparent resin that evokes the still water from which they once drew life.
By filling the log’s natural voids with resin, alcarol arrests the moment just before decay, turning what was nearly lost into something enduring. This piece holds the final breath of a tree, transformed into a silent presence — raw, resilient, and reimagined.

]]> CHIMENTI ROUND Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/chimenti-round-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/chimenti-round-coffee-table/ The Chimenti Round Coffee Table emerges from reclaimed oak planks once part of Venice’s briccole poles, their natural live edges weathered by salt, tides, and the gentle caress of lagoon molluscs. These planks are reimagined in a circular form — a loop that echoes the continuity of water.
In Venetian nautical tradition, chimenti are the gaps between ship planks, sealed by caulkers with oakum and colofonia, a translucent resin. In resonance with that craft, alcarol infuses only the voids in the wood with a transparent resin that mimics the water it once knew — capturing suspended air bubbles, restoring vitality, and preserving the material’s memory.
Through this process, the table becomes a poetic subaqueous section of the Lagoon, where time is arrested and the underground currents of Venice surface in form. The circular shape frames a vision of fluid eternity, invoking the submerged geographies of the city.
More than furniture, the Chimenti Round Coffee Table is a fragment of underwater Venice made visible, crystallized in light and stone — a meeting point between material, memory, and the timeless pulse of water.

]]> CRYSTAL Walnut https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/crystal-walnut/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/crystal-walnut/ Crystal Walnut explores the encounter between organic imperfection and crystalline precision. The raw beauty of walnut wood — with its textured grain and live edges — emerges within a transparent volume shaped like a geometric prism.
The clear material fills the natural gaps between the wooden forms, preserving their contours and creating the illusion of a crystal still in growth. Resting on a burnished steel base that echoes fine jewelry settings, this piece becomes both functional and sculptural: a table born from contrast, where the forest meets the facets of mineral formation.

]]> CRYSTAL Maple https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/crystal-maple/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/crystal-maple/ Crystal Wood is a sculptural trio inspired by the silent symmetry of crystalline minerals. Grown in many directions, these prisms recall the natural geometry of crystals — their sharp angles and reflective faces — while embracing the wild, organic forms of maple wood with live edges.
Between the wood segments, a clear crystalline substance completes the volumes, as if growth continued beyond the natural boundary. Each piece is set on a burnished steel base, echoing the precision of a gemstone mount — a union of chaos and clarity, nature and structure.

]]> CRYSTAL Wood Trio Low Tables https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/crystal-wood-trio-low-tables/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/crystal-wood-trio-low-tables/ Crystalline mineral solids are commonly recognized by their shape, consisting of flat faces with sharp angles, where the atoms form a periodic arrangement.
The Crystal Wood Trio is inspired by the process of crystal formation and growth that extends in many directions and heights, with the aim to connect the organic shapes of wood with the rigid geometries of the minerals.
A special crystalline resin fill the gaps between the wood live edges completing the prisms and preserving their story.
The burnished steel bases recalls the art of securely setting crystals into jewelry. ]]> STUMP Stool _ Hornbeam https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-hornbeam/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool_hornbeam/ Stump Stool – Hornbeam is born from a single log, cut in two halves that still echo their unity. Recovered from the Dolomite undergrowth, the wood preserves its living bark with native mosses and plants, now suspended in a clear surface that recalls the water once nourishing them.
The environmental cross-section reveals the heartwood — the hidden essence of the tree — transforming a discarded stump into a sculptural presence. The touch, scent and grain of the raw cut invite a deeper perception of nature, where time is paused and repurposed.
This is not just a stool, but a fragment of living landscape, made visible.

]]> SURFACING STUMP https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/surfacing-stump/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/surfacing-stump/ After the terrible flood of 2018, alcarol has recovered some discarded pieces of logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and has preserved the natural bark surface with their native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that created and ended his life.
All environmental traces on the raw material are thoroughly studied to discover and preserve the specific Genius Loci.
According to the alcarol concept of environmental cross-section, the natural wood surface is not covered by resin on the section planes, so you can touch its warm organic vibrancy.
The couple of twin pieces are obtained from the same Acacia trunk, rich in amazing roots.

]]> Ocean Networks _ Low Tables https://alcarol.com/collections/ocean-networks-collection/ocean-networks-_-low-tables/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/ocean-networks-_-low-tables/ The tabletops are multicolored since we melted together nets of various colors, dramatically tangled as in the seabed, with a surprising marbled effect.
The legs of the tables are made of glass slabs and aluminum fixings – two of the best examples of recyclable materials in the world – simply wedged and screwed in the nylon tabletops, so each part can be easily removed in order to make the prototypes 100% recyclable in the future.
Through the transparency and reflections of the glass at different heights, the coloured fishing nets of the tabletops seem to float, as an abstract reflection about the fragile condition of our oceans.

]]> STUMP Stool _ Willow https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-willow/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-willow/ alcarol recover discarded pieces of willow log from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and preserve the natural bark surface with its native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
The design engages with the alcarol’s concept of environmental cross-section. By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the material’s cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.
The exposed section surfaces invite the senses to explore — through touch, sight, and scent — opening a quiet dialogue with a place otherwise unseen. ]]> CREEK Low Table _ Plum https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/creek-low-table-plum/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/creek-low-table-_-plum/ The Plum Low Table is born from salvaged log fragments found in the Dolomite undergrowth. The bark’s raw surface, marked by time and moss, is preserved in a translucent layer evoking the still water that once nurtured it.
Following alcarol’s concept of environmental cross-section, this piece captures the end of the material’s life and gives it a renewed purpose, freezing a moment where decay turns into design.
The exposed section planes invite touch and contemplation, revealing a tactile landscape that transcends the ordinary perception of place and matter.

]]> Avalanche Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/avalanche-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/avalanche-coffee-table/ The European Larch tree is native to the Alps.
It’s very cold tolerant, able to survive winter temperatures down to at least -50 °C, and is among the tree line trees in these mountains, reaching 2500 m altitude.

Sometimes this brave mountain tree grows in the most daring positions, even under repeated avalanches with continuous discharges of snow.

alcarol has discovered a very rare secular dead tree under a snowslide in an arduous position in the Dolomites.
The shape of the trunk were full of nodules and deforming protrusions generated by the assiduous struggle against the snow that broke the branches throughout its entire life.
The tree continued to heal over its wounds and grow new branches, and this long fight is clearly visible inside the wood which is characterized by a totally extraordinary grain and density of very rare knots.
alcarol decided to freeze this unique wood with an iced resin preserving forever the memory of this fearless essence.
]]> TRAIL Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/trail-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/trail-coffee-table/ alcarol recovered some logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and cut planks that preserve the natural edges with their native populations of mosses, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
The Trail Coffee Table is a composition of two pieces made from a single wood plank. This piece is a walk trought the forest, it’s a path to immerse in the fresh sensations of the greenery that animate the woods. ]]> STUMP Stool _ Larch https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-larch/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-larch/ alcarol recover discarded pieces of logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and preserve the natural bark surface with their native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
The design engages with the alcarol’s concept of environmental cross-section. By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the material’s cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.
The section planes – through touch, sight and olfaction of different materials – allow to transcend the ordinary perception of a place. ]]> STUMP Stool _ Oak https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-stool-oak/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-stool-_-oak/ alcarol recover discarded pieces of logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and preserve the natural bark surface with their native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
The design engages with the alcarol’s concept of environmental cross-section. By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the material’s cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.
The section planes – through touch, sight and olfaction of different materials – allow to transcend the ordinary perception of a place

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]]> STUMP Side Table _ Poplar https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/stump-side-table-_-poplar/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/stump-side-table-_-poplar/ alcarol recover discarded pieces of logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and preserve the natural bark surface with their native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that generated their life.
The design engages with the alcarol’s concept of environmental cross-section. By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the material’s cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.
The section planes – through touch, sight and olfaction of different materials – allow to transcend the ordinary perception of a place. ]]>