Consoles – alcarol

Uranus Console

admin.alcarol — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:29:37 +0000

As a suspended composition of Burled Poplar wood and transparent crystalline depth, this console transforms organic matter into a luminous sculptural presence inspired by celestial atmospheres and shifting perceptions of light.

The intricate grain of the Burled Poplar — marked by knots, eyes, and unpredictable growth patterns — is enhanced through a verdigris pigmentation process that gives the wood an iridescent green radiance. Light continuously interacts with the surface, creating reflections that seem to move beneath the transparent volume, evoking the visual depth and ethereal tones of distant planetary landscapes.

The transparent structure creates a seamless continuity between the legs and the top, allowing the material and crystalline depths to flow uninterrupted through the entire piece like a suspended bridge between solid matter and light. The live-edge slabs appear to float weightlessly while remaining connected in perfect equilibrium, amplifying the sensation of fluidity and suspended movement.

More than a console, the piece becomes a contemplative object where nature, perception, and transparency merge into a continuous sculptural landscape.

WETLAND Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000

A wetland is an ecosystem rich in water — a place where, under certain conditions, organic materials such as wood can be preserved for millennia. In some alpine regions, ancient fossil deposits are found buried in riverbeds: trunks once swept away by currents and slowly covered by layers of sand and gravel. In their oxygen-poor rest, a semi-fossilization process begins. Subterranean waters bind minerals and iron with the wood’s tannins, naturally tinting it in tones that range from golden brown to deep black, where each grain becomes a chromatic landscape.
The fossil wood used in this piece is an oak from the Iron Age, dated to the 5th century BCE by radiocarbon analysis — rediscovered and carefully dried after centuries of immersion.
Like the water that once protected it, alcarol’s transparent resin embraces the ancient wood, preserving its uniqueness and allowing the eye to perceive its original energy. A transparent vertical pillar pierces and sustains the wooden surface, in an almost anti-gravitational gesture. This crystalline column becomes both structure and symbol — a luminous axis of equilibrium that links the weight of the past to the clarity of the present, transforming material memory into suspended light.
The Wetland Console thus embodies the dialogue between permanence and transience — between what is buried and what endures, between water and time.

RAPOLANO One Side Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000

Nestled in the Sienese hills, the town of Rapolano has long been a land where stone and water intertwine. Since ancient times, its thermal springs have drawn those in search of healing, while its travertine – shaped by centuries of mineral sedimentation – has served as a building material since the Etruscan era.
Formed by the slow precipitation of carbonate minerals in underground waters, this unique travertine bears fibrous textures and earthy hues – from soft white to warm rust – that make it unlike any other in the world. Often found in caves and thermal basins, it carries within its veins the memory of flowing water and geological time.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol has salvaged timeworn fragments of this living stone, preserving its natural cavities with a transparent resin that recalls the thermal waters in which it once lay submerged.
The Rapolano One Side Console is a sculptural flow. Rising vertically from the ground, unfolding in a single horizontal stretch, and returning once more to the earth, it traces a seamless path, like water shaping its course through stone. A continuous gesture where material, memory, and movement converge in one timeless form.

TRAIL One Side Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000

alcarol has recovered logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomites, selecting planks that still preserve their natural edges and native populations of moss and lichens: small, delicate organisms embedded in a transparent resin that recalls the water from which they once drew life.
The Trail Console is crafted from a single plank, cut into three parts with a very fine blade and then reassembled so precisely that the woodgrain flows seamlessly across each plane. The vertical and horizontal segments are joined invisibly, so both the wood and the resin follow a continuous path, forming an object that appears to be a single, bent gesture.
This sculptural movement evokes the natural growth of a tree: rising from the ground, reaching outward, and then returning to the earth: a silent path in wood and memory.
Trail is not just a console, but a spatial walk through the forest, a tactile reminder of the vitality hidden beneath the canopy, and the timeless motion of nature shaping form.

FUNGI Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000

The Fungi Console is crafted from a single beech plank, recovered from an abandoned log in the Italian Dolomite forest, still bearing the delicate traces of its native fungal life.
Cut with a thin blade and folded into form, the plank becomes a seamless architectural gesture. The woodgrain aligns perfectly around the corners, as if never divided, while a clear, icy resin — resembling the winter stillness that paused the fungi’s growth — fuses vertical and horizontal planes into one uninterrupted surface.
Within the wood, the fungi have etched their silent presence: delicate patterns, dark lines, and tonal shifts map a hidden metamorphosis, revealing a landscape sculpted by time, place, and conditions never to be repeated. Preserved just before its full dissolution, the wood’s decay becomes a new kind of permanence — a fragment of organic history, paused in its most expressive moment.

RAPOLANO Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000

In the Sienese lands of Tuscany lies Rapolano, a place where ancient Romans once bathed in thermal springs and, long before them, the Etruscans quarried a rare and vibrant stone: Rapolano Travertine.
Formed over millennia by mineral-rich waters flowing through hot springs and limestone caves, this sedimentary rock reveals delicate cavities, fibrous veins, and layered textures — each a trace of time, erosion, and transformation. Its palette ranges from creamy whites to rusted ochres, making it unlike any other travertine in the world.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol has reclaimed weathered fragments of this ancient stone, preserving its hollowed forms with a transparent resin that evokes the very waters from which it was born.
The Rapolano Console is not merely functional, it is a metaphysical composition. A fragment of earth, shaped by centuries of subterranean flow, is lifted and held aloft by a slender metal pillar: a silent, vertical presence anchoring space and time. The stone hovers in balance, between geology and geometry, memory and material, made eternal through design.

CREEK Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000

Creek Console is crafted from a rare, centuries-old European Larch tree discovered under a snowslide in the Dolomites. Native to the Alpine high altitudes, this tree endured decades of winter storms and repeated avalanches — its body twisted, scarred, and reshaped by the relentless weight of snow.
The trunk bears nodules, knots, and bulging scars where branches once broke and new ones emerged. It’s a portrait of resistance, a lifetime of healing made visible in wood grain, density, and form.
alcarol has encapsulated this fearless essence in a resin that resembles ice, freezing in time the memory of a tree shaped by hardship, yet standing tall until the end.

BENT One Side Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000

The Bent Console One Side is born from a single plank of Briccola oak, reclaimed from Venice’s lagoon. With a delicate cut, alcarol lets this plank rise vertically, bend into the horizontal, and then return to earth — mirroring the eternal cycle of water as it ascends, flows, and descends.
The live edges, sculpted by salt, time, and lagoon molluscs, are preserved in all their irregular beauty, while the voids are filled with a transparent resin that echoes the water that once embraced the wood. This resin preserves air bubbles, light, and memory, creating a seamless continuity between the vertical and horizontal planes — as though the console were one continuous, fluid sculpture.
In this way, the Bent Console becomes a frozen watercourse — a single, flowing form where wood becomes landscape, and the passage of time is held still. It is a fragment of submerged Venice, suspended between gravity and flow, turning natural forces into a serene, unbroken presence.

BENT RIVER Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000

The Bent River Console is born from a single plank of Venetian Briccola oak, carved and bent so fluidly that wood seems to flow like water. The plank rises, bends, and returns to earth, tracing a silent current that crosses space.
Its natural edges — eroded by salt, tides, and time — remain intact, lending the piece an organic character. Where voids exist, a transparent resin fills them, mirroring the lagoon water that once caressed the wood. The resin captures suspended air bubbles and light, as though freezing the movement of a submerged river within the console.
In its essence, the Bent River becomes a sculpted watercourse — a bridge between verticality and horizontality, between gravity and flow. It evokes a living river carved from a single wood flow, preserving a fragment of Venice’s underwater geography in stillness and light.

MAPLE REEF Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000

Crafted from rare maple burl recovered in the Dolomite undergrowth, this console reveals the hidden language of stress and survival. The swirling grain, eyes, and knots—born from time, fungus, and disruption—draw complex, organic patterns that no design could replicate.
Encased in a translucent layer that evokes the still waters of its native forest, the wood becomes a suspended landscape. Its irregular contours and unpredictable forms suggest a coral reef, a microscopic world, or a topography yet to be discovered.
A sculptural presence that invites open interpretation, where matter and imagination meet.

WETLAND Relic

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000

A wetland is a water-shaped ecosystem where, in rare conditions, nature can preserve wood for thousands of years. Abonos—a Celtic name for this semi-fossilized wetland timber—originates from ancient Alpine riverbeds, where submerged trunks rested beneath layers of sediments. Over centuries, minerals, iron and water bonded with the wood’s tannins, hardening its structure and colouring its grain through an extraordinary chromatic spectrum that shifts from golden notes to deep black, with shades that are never alike.
Recovered through careful, meticulous work, this ancestral material resurfaces like a jewel of the past, revealing the marks of time and the silent memory of flowing water. The console embraces and frames these organic forms, preserving their essence and letting their unique story remain visible.
Below, slender metaphysical legs rise like impossible pillars or dreamlike stilts, holding matter and time in suspension. They elevate the ancient wood as if it were a relic emerging from a submerged world—an artifact of nature, lifted and revealed, yet still connected to the flow that shaped it.
The result is a console where nature, memory and structure coexist: the ancestral body of the wood above, and beneath it, the stillness of pillars that suspend time—an encounter between what once moved and what now endures.

WETLAND Fragment

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000

A wetland is an ecosystem saturated with water, capable in rare conditions of preserving wood for millennia. Abonos, a Celtic name for this extraordinary wetland wood, comes from some rare alluvial zones of the Alps — where submerged trees lay hidden while minerals and water initiated a slow semi-fossilisation. Currents bound iron and minerals with the tannins of the wood, naturally hardening and colouring it; on the chromatic scale of the grain, hues shift from golden to midnight black, each piece bearing unique patterns of its journey.
This wood, once locked beneath water and sediment, now comes to light like a relic of deep time — recovered with precision and respect. In this piece, the material stands as a fragment of a world long gone, yet resurrected for our present. The untouched natural surfaces invite touch, reminding us of the warm organic vibrancy of something ancient and enduring.
Each shade, each texture, each grain tells a story: the silent flow of water, the slow passage of centuries, the hidden transformation of wood into memory.

PEATLAND Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000

alcarol has salvaged rare black oak trunks from the depths of an Alpine peatland—trees buried in acid, oxygen-poor wetlands, where over centuries minerals and iron salts reacted with the tannins of the wood. The result: wood darkened from rich brown to deep black, its structure hardened, its story etched into every fibre.
In the Peatland Console, the wood’s veins continue uninterrupted, flowing across the surface like the wake of time itself. A central “river-bridge” spans the length of the piece, a visual and structural metaphor for continuity—where root meets horizon, where past meets present. Footings lift the console lightly, reinforcing the idea of a bridge that both connects and elevates.
The natural live edges remain, preserving the rugged trace of ancient water and matter. The sections are left bare to the touch, inviting you to feel the pulsation of a material forged by centuries. Transparent elements nod to the still waters that once held it, yet here the focus is on the bridge-like flow of grain and memory, carrying the oak’s story across space and time.
This console is not merely furniture—it is a span across epochs, where oak, peat, water and design converge. A piece where you can place your life, yet feel the weight of what came before.

WETLAND One Side Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000

A wetland is an ecosystem shaped and saturated by water, where in rare conditions nature preserves wood for millennia. Abonos—a Celtic name for this semi-fossilized wetland timber—comes from ancient Alpine trunks submerged in alluvial sediments. Over centuries, minerals and water bonded with the tannins, hardening the wood and colouring its grain across a spectrum that shifts from gold to deep black, with shades that can never repeat.
Recovered through meticulous work, this ancestral material resurfaces like a jewel of the past, bearing the silent memory of flowing waters and vanished landscapes. In the Wetland One-Side Console, the wood stands tall and vertical, like a tree once rooted in the earth, then becomes a horizontal surface that converses with space, and finally returns downward, as if completing the eternal cycle of life, time and matter.
The organic shapes are embraced and revealed, while the natural surface remains exposed to the touch—warm, vibrant, alive. What emerges is not only a functional piece, but a poetic gesture: a fragment of nature that ascends, rests, and returns, echoing the rhythm that binds all living things.
In the corners, the wood grain meets perfectly, as if bending in a single continuous gesture. Through a special process, even the resin becomes one uninterrupted piece, showing no visible separation between horizontal and vertical planes. This invisible corner joint, developed by alcarol, preserves the purity of form and fluidity of line, and is also suitable for benches, tables, and similar bespoke applications.

BENT Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000

The Bent Console is born from a single plank of Venetian Briccola oak, its form shaped by the currents, tides, and decades of lagoon life. The natural edges, sculpted by salt and molluscs, remain intact — a testimony to the slow dialogue between water and wood.
Flanking the wood, two bands of transparent resin rise like twin rivers — echoing the water that once enveloped the plank, and now shielding it. These resin borders cradle the wood, sealing its history and preserving its integrity, while capturing bubbles, reflections, and the silent breath of the lagoon.
The console becomes a living shoreline: wood shaped by submerged time, framed and guarded by resins that suggest fluidity even in stillness. The result is an object of silent tension — where the passage of water is both honored and held in quiet form.
More than furniture, the Bent Console is a living fragment of Venice’s underwater realm — where water becomes structure, and structure recalls water.
In the corners, the wood grain meets perfectly, as if bending in a single continuous gesture. Through a special process, even the resin becomes one uninterrupted piece, showing no visible separation between horizontal and vertical planes. This invisible corner joint, developed by alcarol, preserves the purity of form and fluidity of line, and is also suitable for benches, tables, and similar bespoke applications.

FUNGI Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000

The Fungi Wood Console is crafted from a single plank of Beech wood, sourced from a fallen tree deep within the Italian Dolomite forests. Colonised by native fungi, the wood bears extraordinary patterns and discolorations — delicate cartographies drawn by time, decay, and transformation.
The plank is sliced into two parts with a razor-thin blade, then rejoined at right angles. The continuity of the fungal woodgrain is perfectly aligned, appearing as if the board were simply bent. Through a unique process, the translucent element that fills and supports the piece is a single, seamless volume, with no visible separation between horizontal and vertical surfaces.
The console’s vertical leg — minimal and silent — acts as a metaphysical support, grounding the transience of organic matter in a moment of suspended stillness. It becomes an axis between the earthly and the intangible, lifting the decaying beauty of the wood into a new, contemplative dimension.
Encased in a crystal-clear resin evoking frozen water, the natural live edges and fungal textures are preserved at the threshold between growth and disappearance. No two pieces are ever alike; each is a singular expression of place, season, and process.

Avalanche Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000

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.

Phellem Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000

Phellem is the outermost layer of tree bark — a vast living skin that protects, adapts and records the identity of each species. This piece celebrates its extraordinary biodiversity, revealing a botanical richness of colours, textures and patterns that would otherwise remain unseen.
When bark is damaged, the tree releases a complex liquid that hardens into a natural resin, creating a protective barrier against fungi, bacteria and parasites. Inspired by this innate defence, alcarol preserves the bark with a bio-based transparent resin, echoing the tree’s own gesture and freezing every detail as it appeared in its original habitat.
In the Phellem Console, the focus is on a single, large bark surface — a continuous skin that spreads like a natural landscape, allowing its textures to be read like a living map of the tree’s history. The clean, flat layer of resin protects without concealing, letting the viewer encounter the bark in its pure state, intact and uninterrupted.
More than a functional console, it becomes a fragment of forest identity — a rare opportunity to stand before the true scale of nature’s skin, preserved and elevated in contemporary form.

TRAIL Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000

Trail Console is crafted from a single plank of wood recovered in the Dolomite undergrowth, where native mosses still cling to the live edges. Preserved in a clear layer that recalls the water once nourishing them, the greenery appears gently suspended in time.
The plank is sliced into three parts and rejoined with perfect grain continuity, forming a seamless transition from vertical to horizontal and back again — as if following the quiet path of a forest stream. Even the resin appears unbroken, flowing through the corners without interruption.
This console is a suspended walk through the woods, a tactile trace of nature’s stillness and movement — where form and memory become one.

CANAL Console

marcoresenterra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:41 +0000

In Venice, each canal has unique characteristics. Over the centuries man and elements have defined its aspect. Walking through the alleys, changing perspective or waiting for a change in the rays of the sun, this millennial environment takes different expressions. Canal wants to reproduce this experience: an integrated sensor detects the passage of people and activates a light source hidden inside the metal base, so the light reaches the aquamarine resin and gives us the thrill of a ray of sunlight filtered through the lagoon waters. The natural live edge wood obtained from the Venetian poles are bring again beneath the water’s surface, freezing time at the end of its cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste. alcarol has patented an innovative process capable of filling only the empty spaces of the wood with a special transparent resin and capturing the underwater air bubbles that bring the wood back to the original look and conditions, allowing to transcend the ordinary perception of a place.