Complements – alcarol https://alcarol.com Matter as a silent archive. Design as suspended moment where place and time converge Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alcarol.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/alcarol-favico-100x100.png Complements – alcarol https://alcarol.com 32 32 VULCANO Bookend https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/vulcano-bookend/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:50:40 +0000 https://alcarol.com/?post_type=product&p=11379 The Vulcano Bookends are conceived as solid volumes that encapsulate the moment lava encounters the surrounding sea. The porous stone, marked by abrupt cooling and internal fractures, is held within a transparent resin that evokes the enveloping presence of water.

Like geological cross-sections of submarine formations, the cut surfaces reveal inner structures shaped by thermal contrast: voids, ruptures, and textures generated in the instant where heat is absorbed and transformed. The act of cutting exposes rather than defines — opening the material to reveal its hidden dynamics.

Erosion and cooling, pressure and release: the pieces hold within them the memory of these opposing forces. The resin preserves this moment as a suspended environment, where density and fluidity coexist.

Placed in space, they function as minimal architectural markers — delimiting and supporting, yet above all embodying a condition. Not simply objects, but fragments of a submerged landscape, where time, matter, and energy briefly reached equilibrium.

]]> STROMBOLI Vase https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/stromboli-vase/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:25:22 +0000 https://alcarol.com/?post_type=product&p=11357 The Stromboli vases recall the upward thrust of lava rising through water, abruptly halted and crystallized. Their compact forms suggest pressure and ascent, while the resin captures the boundary where molten matter met its cooling counterpart.

Within each piece, a micro-geography unfolds: cavities formed by escaping gases, textures defined by sudden solidification, surfaces that speak of tension between fluidity and resistance. The transparency acts as a still body of water, through which the dense core is observed.

Here, water and lava — elemental forces that shaped the conditions for life — converge once more, becoming a symbolic source of nourishment. The vessel is not only a container, but a site of continuity, where a plant or flower draws from this elemental memory, as if sustained by the very conditions that once made life possible.

They stand as quiet presences, yet charged with latent energy — like submarine eruptions that continue unseen beneath the surface.

]]> CHIRON Screen https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/chiron-screen/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/chiron-screen/ The Chiron Screen inhabits a space between revelation and concealment — a boundary where vision hesitates. Made of four Burled Maple planks with live edges, each is frozen in a crystal-clear medium, suspended in time.
This opaque-transparency invites a subtle dance of light and shade: some parts are visible, others concealed. A viewer glimpses forms shifting through translucency — the screen becomes a whispered echo of perception itself.
Infused with verdigris and oil, the wood’s holographic grain emerges under changing light, its unusual depth making the material appear uncanny, almost alien. Though terrestrial, the Chiron Screen acts as a veil between what is and what might be: a portal to reconsider how we see, conceal, and reveal.

]]> ETNA Gem Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/etna-gem-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/etna-gem-lamp/ The Etna Gem Lamp embodies the encounter of two primordial forces — fire and water — captured in luminous stillness. Produced with authentic lava rocks sourced from Mount Etna and encased in crystal-clear resin, it preserves the precise instant when molten magma met the sea during a submarine eruption.
Half a million years ago, this underwater collision shaped the lava into fluid, organic forms — matter sculpted by the touch of water, frozen at the threshold between motion and calm. Within the transparent body, every stone retains the memory of that encounter, a relic of fire transformed by depth and pressure.
A warm LED light emerges from the burnished steel base, filtering through the resin like sunlight beneath the sea. It reveals suspended air bubbles, glimmering like fragments of time, and evokes the quiet radiance of an underwater dawn.
More than a lamp, the Etna Gem is a meditation on Earth’s origins — a luminous fragment where geology becomes poetry, and light reawakens the memory of creation.

 

]]> WETLAND Drawers https://alcarol.com/collections/wetland-collection/wetland-drawers/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/wetland-drawers/ A wetland is an ecosystem that is saturated with water, which in some cases preserves materials such as wood for millennia.
Abonos is a Celtic name which indicates the “fossil” wetland wood type of some rare alluvial areas of the Alps, where minerals and water have started the semi-fossilization process of the submerged trees.
Currents bind the minerals and iron in the water with tannins in the wood, naturally hardening and colouring the wood in the process. This is clearly visible on the chromatics scale of the woodgrain – changing from golden to black – with always unique shades.
This wood finally comes to light like a jewel of the past, through a careful, complex work of recovery and processing.
Like the water over millennia, the alcarol’s transparent resin surrounds the organic shapes of this unique wood, preserving and enhancing all its preciousness and charm.
The natural wood surface  it’s not covered by resin on the section planes, so you can touch the warm organic vibrancy of such an ancient material.

]]> 6:44 AM HORIZONS _ Mirror Seat https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/6-44-am-horizons-mirror-seat/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/644-am-horizons-_-mirror-seat/ 6:44 AM HORIZONS is an exploration around human perception of landscapes, with an eye towards sky and space.
alcarol’s research expands on the concept of horizons by emphasizing the importance of the sky in defining them. The design integrates elements of mountains, sky, and cosmos, blending them with abstract representations of planetary geologies.
The seat, made of verdigris velvet, reflects the Italian Alps while incorporating textures inspired by other planets. This abstraction aims to highlight the similarities between Earth and other celestial bodies, surprising viewers with unexpected softness.
The piece evokes the pre-sunrise copper dawn sky, using a mirrored steel with burnished an copper patinas representing a cloudy sunrise and invoking the atmosphere of other planets. The material used is intentionally unconventional, sometimes appearing frozen or suspended, adding to the dreamy contemplation of the piece.

]]> Wave Screen https://alcarol.com/collections/ocean-networks-collection/wave-screen/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/wave-screen/ The WAVE screen by alcarol aims to represent one of the main problems submerged in the oceans of our planet: the ghost nets.
Almost one tenth of the ocean plastic waste consists of abandoned fishing nets turning millions of sea creatures into victims.
Fishing nets are made of nylon, a high-performance plastic that is now also completely recyclable.
The Wave screen is made of some coloured nets from the oceans melted together with ECONYL® material, the translucent regenerated nylon produced through an innovative and sustainable chemical process that regenerate waste such as fishing and aquaculture nets and other nylon waste.
Inspired by the ocean waves of Hokusai, the Wave screen is an abstract reflection about the fragile condition of our oceans. ]]> MOSS Screen https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/moss-screen/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/moss-screen/ The Moss Screen is crafted from walnut boards sourced in the Dolomite undergrowth, where fallen trees still carried their native mosses.
By preserving these living traces in their vertical arrangement, the piece recalls a cross section of the forest.
It invites a new way of seeing what usually escapes our gaze, revealing the quiet ecosystems that thrive in the shade, and transforming an unnoticed layer of nature into a presence that stands, breathes, and endures.

]]> FLOATING KARST Bookends https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/floating-karst-bookends/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/floating-karst-bookends/ Karst is a singular landscape, sculpted by water over thousands of years. As acidic rain seeps through soluble stone – like the Dolomites’ ancient bedrock – it dissolves matter along natural fractures, carving a hidden world beneath the surface: sinkholes, disappearing streams, underground rivers, and vast cave systems shaped by turbulent flow.
In this relentless dance of erosion, water becomes both creator and destroyer, always moving, always shaping.
alcarol has retrieved fragments of karst stone, partially cloaked in native mosses and lichens, their organic skin preserved in a crystal-clear resin evoking the very water that once crossed and hollowed them. Now, this once-fluid presence is frozen, not lost, but stilled.
The Floating Karst Bookends are iconic objects: fragments of ancient terrain, shaped by geologic time and held in a suspended instant. Where water once flowed to erase, it now stands still to support, grounding knowledge, anchoring stories, and turning erosion into permanence. ]]> Fluctus Suspension Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/ocean-networks-collection/fluctus-suspension-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fluctus-suspension-lamp/ Fluctus Lamp is made of some coloured nets from the oceans melted together with ECONYL®, the translucent regenerated nylon produced through an innovative and sustainable chemical process that regenerate waste such as fishing and aquaculture nets and other nylon waste.
The illuminated surfaces represent the ocean seen from an underwater view, and the light coming from above filters and passes through the surface, creating light effects through the material.
Fluctus Lamp has been designed in such a way that the light intensity can be changed and light animations can be set using an app to be installed on any smartphone, with the aim of creating infinite and personal underwater light scenarios.
Through the transparency and light reflections of ECONYL®, the coloured fishing nets seem to float, dramatically tangled as in the real oceans, as an abstract reflection about the fragile condition of our oceans. ]]> Undergrowth Layer_ Wall Art https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/undergrowth-layer-wall-art/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/undergrowth-layer_-wall-art/ Undergrowth Layer is a thin wood slice recovered from logs found in the Dolomite undergrowth, still bearing their natural edges and native mosses. These delicate traces of forest life are suspended in a translucent layer that evokes the water once surrounding them, preserving both material and memory.
Each panel includes invisible supports on the back, allowing it to be hung freely and repositioned. Whether placed alone or in dialogue with others, the piece becomes part of a larger composition, a living cross-section of the forest, reimagined for the wall.

 

]]> FLOATING KARST Vase https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/floating-karst-vase/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/floating-karst-vase/ Karst landscapes are shaped by the patient work of water — dissolving, carving, and vanishing through stone over countless millennia. From the Dolomites’ ancient depths, alcarol retrieves fragments of this terrain, their surfaces marked by erosion, moss, and time.
Encased in a crystal-clear resin that recalls still water, each fragment becomes a suspended landscape — a pause in motion, a moment of geology stilled. The flowing element that once shaped these stones now lies motionless, its movement crystallized into transparency.
The Floating Karst Vase is a fragment of land held between presence and absence. The stone seems to hover in space, as if gravity had loosened its hold, while above it, life unfolds in impermanent bloom. The flower — fleeting, delicate — rises from the stillness of rock shaped by ancient waters. It is a vessel where the eternal sustains the ephemeral, where time pauses to let life continue.
A quiet dialogue between motion and stillness, weight and levity, permanence and the passing of a petal.

]]> WETLAND Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/wetland-collection/wetland-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/wetland-lamp/ A wetland is an ecosystem shaped and saturated by water, where in rare conditions nature can preserve wood for thousands of years. Abonos, a Celtic name for this semi-fossilized wetland timber, comes from ancient Alpine trunks buried beneath sediments. Over centuries, minerals and water bonded with the wood’s tannins, hardening its structure and colouring its grain through shades that shift from gold to deep black—tones that can never repeat.
Recovered with meticulous care, this ancestral material resurfaces like a fragment from a submerged age, bearing the silent memory of flowing water and vanished landscapes.
In the Wetland Lamp, light becomes narration: it filters through the organic forms of the Abonos wood and reveals what time had hidden, illuminating veins, textures and shadows shaped over millennia. The lamp does not merely shine—it unveils, allowing the grain to glow like a whispered story, rediscovered in the present.
Every surface is a trace, every hue a secret of the depths: a small relic of the Earth’s memory transformed into light.

]]> FLOATING KARST Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/floating-karst-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/floating-karst-lamp/ Karst landscapes are shaped not by force, but by dissolution. Over thousands of years, acidic water has sculpted the Dolomites’ soft stone into underground rivers, sinkholes, and hollow caverns — a geography of erosion, both seen and unseen.
From this terrain, alcarol has recovered fragments of karst rock — their surface marked by time, mosses, lichens, and the patient work of flowing water. Each void and cavity, sculpted by nature’s slow gesture, is preserved in a clear resin that mimics the very element that shaped it.
The Floating Karst Lamp is a metaphysical object: a fragment of territory carved by movement, now suspended in an instant of stillness. The stone hovers within light, its levitation made possible by absence — a void that becomes presence.
Activated by touch, the integrated LED gently reveals the stone’s inner landscapes. Light filters through the water-like resin, illuminating erosion made eternal, and inviting the viewer to contemplate the paradox of impermanence captured and held.
This is no mere lamp — it is a suspended moment of matter and time, where water, stone and light converge in quiet permanence.

]]> MOSS Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/moss-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/moss-lamp/ Sourced from logs gathered in the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomites, the Moss Lamp preserves the natural edges of wood and their native mosses, gently encased in a clear matter evoking the still waters that once sustained them.
With a simple touch on its metal base, the integrated LED system reveals shifting intensities of light, casting the vivid textures of nature into quiet focus.
A luminous fragment of forest, where time and growth are held in gentle suspension.

]]> DOLOMYTH Vase https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/dolomyth-vase/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/dolomyth-vase/ The Dolomyth Vase emerges from the silent heart of the Dolomites — carved from stone blocks retrieved in an abandoned quarry, where time once pressed its weight into layers of sediment. These vertical sections reveal the geological memory of the mountains, with delicate strata shifting from antique pink to soft grey — the unmistakable palette of dolomite rock.
The base of the vase is cast in crystal-clear resin, like ancient water turned to glass. It doesn’t just preserve the wrinkled surface of the stone — it suspends it, reverses it, as though the submerged has risen, and time had turned upside down. What once was buried beneath rivers of stone now floats, impossibly, in stillness.
Above this surreal balance, a small removable glass vessel invites life — a stem, a bloom, a single moment of becoming. The Dolomyth Vase is a fragment of territory, eroded by water and held in the echo of its absence. A surreal object where the heavy floats, and the ephemeral takes root atop the eternal. ]]> FUNGI Screen https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-screen/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-screen/ The Fungi Screen is composed of four vertical wooden boards, sawn from dead Beech trees found in the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomites. These logs, naturally colonized by fungi, reveal the intimate textures and transformations of wood in its early stages of decay.
The planks are arranged like abstract tree trunks—an environmental cross-section that evokes the forest itself, inviting us to transcend the ordinary perception of material and place.
Each board tells a different story: fungal growth etches dramatic lines, pigments, and discolorations into the grain, creating intricate, unpredictable patterns. These natural drawings—unique to time, place, and conditions—offer a new dimension to the wood’s memory.
The live edges are preserved in a clear resin that resembles the winter ice which once halted the fungi’s work. Time is suspended. The process of decay is paused, transformed into a meditative stillness. The ephemeral beauty of nature becomes enduring.

 

]]> SUSANNA ISLAND https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/susanna-island/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/susanna-island/ Susanna Island emerges like a small fragment of Venice — a portion of Briccola oak once immersed in the lagoon and now embraced by a veil of aquamarine resin. The wood, sculpted by salt, tides, and time, appears to resurface from its liquid past, while the resin flows around it like water turning to glass.
Countless air bubbles remain suspended inside the translucent mass, tracing the contours of a quiet underwater landscape — an island adrift in stillness. The resin protects and preserves the timber it once mirrored, freezing a fleeting moment that could only exist in the Venetian lagoon.
Resting on a rotating base, Susanna Island invites the viewer to slowly circumnavigate its shores, discovering a different reflection with every turn. It is more than a Lazy Susan: it is a luminous microcosm – a small, eternal Venice surfacing from water and memory.

]]> WATER BRIGHT Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/water-bright-lamp/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/water-bright-lamp/ Water Bright is a fragment, a synthesis of the millennial relationship between wood and water. It ‘s the story of the profound and romantic rapport that develops between these two elements in Venice.

The light of variable intensity reveals the poetry of this union and referts to the Lagoon atmosphere.  alcarol has patented an elaborate craftsmanship capable of filling only the empty spaces of the wood with a transparent resin capturing the underwater air bubbles that bring the wood back to the original look and conditions in the depths of the Venetian canals.

]]> BURANO Plate https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/burano-plate/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/burano-plate/ Burano is an island in the Lagoon of Venice, famous for its lace.
This plate is created with a slice of Bricola wood, the traditional timber pole planted in the Lagoon seabed, characterized by the tunnels carved by the molluscs that create a pattern of solids and voids, lights and shadows, like a lace.
This wooden crochet is surrounded by a sheet of transparent aquamarine resin liven up by a constellation of underwater air bubbles that returns a fragment of submerged Venice.

 

]]> ABYSS Lamp https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/abyss-lamp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:41:41 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/abyss-lamp/ Abyss is a true immersion into the depths of a Venetian canal — a luminous fragment of the lagoon captured in stillness. By gently touching the metal base, the light within responds like the shifting sun over Venice, varying in tone and intensity with each gesture, as if the weather itself breathed through the piece.
When the light passes through the aquamarine transparency, it evokes the thrill of a sunbeam filtered through the lagoon waters, revealing the suspended air and hidden breath of Venice below. At its heart lies a genuine fragment of Briccola — the oak pole that has stood for decades in the lagoon, sculpted by salt, tides, and time.
The result is a living cross-section of the underwater city: an echo of the abyss transformed into light, a vision of Venice seen from beneath its own surface.

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