Side Tables – alcarol https://alcarol.com Matter as a silent archive. Design as suspended moment where place and time converge Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alcarol.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/alcarol-favico-100x100.png Side Tables – alcarol https://alcarol.com 32 32 CRYSTAL KARST Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/crystal-karst-coffee-table/ Sat, 09 May 2026 09:29:23 +0000 https://alcarol.com/?post_type=product&p=11607 Born from the slow erosion of karst landscapes, where water patiently carves stone into hidden cavities and subterranean voids, this coffee table transforms geological time into a suspended object of contemplation. The porous surface of the Karst stone — shaped over millennia within the Dolomite mountains — reveals a natural topography of hollows, fractures, and mineral traces, preserving the silent memory of water’s movement through matter.

Encased within a transparent, water-like resin, the stone appears suspended in a moment between solidity and dissolution, as if a fragment of landscape had been crystallized mid-transformation. The resin does not conceal the material, but amplifies its depth and organic complexity, preserving the tactile authenticity of the exposed section planes and the natural vibrancy of the stone.
The table’s irregular geometry evokes an emerged terrain or an eroded island floating in stillness, a balance between weight and lightness, permanence and fragility.
A fragment of geological memory suspended in space, a meditation on time, transformation, and the quiet poetry of the Earth.

]]> ANCHOR III Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/anchor-iii-side-table/ Sat, 09 May 2026 08:33:12 +0000 https://alcarol.com/?post_type=product&p=11591 Three ancient Venetian Bricola poles emerge side by side, their surfaces deeply sculpted by salt, tides, molluscs, and decades beneath the shifting waters of the lagoon. Wider and more expansive than the original Anchor Twist, this piece amplifies the dialogue between wood, light, and suspended fluidity, transforming three reclaimed fragments into a single sculptural landscape.

The aquamarine resin flowing between the vertical forms evokes the hidden currents that once surrounded these maritime markers, preserving the underwater atmosphere of Venice within a crystallized volume. Air bubbles, reflections, and translucent depths become frozen traces of the lagoon itself, capturing the silent movement of water in a state of stillness.

Each Bricola pole carries its own history of erosion and marine life, revealing textures impossible to reproduce: tunnels carved by molluscs, weathered grain, and natural fractures shaped by time. Together, the three elements create a rhythmic composition where solid oak and luminous resin alternate like islands emerging from water.

More than a side table, the piece becomes a cross-section of the Venetian lagoon, a suspended fragment of submerged architecture where memory, water, and wood converge into a timeless balance between nature and transformation.

]]> 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. ]]> KARST GEM https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/karst-gem/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/karst-gem/ Karst is a landscape born from the patient work of water — a slow dissolution that carves stone into voids, caves, and hidden rivers beneath the surface of the Earth. Over millennia, rain and time have sculpted the soluble rocks of the Italian Alps into delicate networks of hollows and veins, transforming erosion into an act of creation.
From this ancient terrain, alcarol has collected fragments of authentic karst stone, some still bearing traces of mosses and lichens, witnesses of a living geology. Each fragment is preserved within a transparent, water-like volume, echoing the very element that shaped it. The result is a suspended landscape, a solid block of time in which water’s motion has become light.
The geometric form — reminiscent of a cut gem — crystallizes the essence of the karst process itself: the transformation of fragility into permanence, of void into beauty. The gem becomes a metaphor for the Earth’s memory — a relic of matter purified by dissolution, where absence is as meaningful as substance.
Karst Gem stands as both stool and sculpture, both artifact and meditation: a luminous monument to the quiet power of water and the slow poetry of geological time.

]]> LAVA Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/lava-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/lava/ The matter surface is the one that is normally revealed, but only by going deeper can we fully understand the processes and forces that generated it.
Lava is molten rock that has been expelled from the interior of a planet onto its surface. Lava may have erupted on land or underwater.
The word Lava comes from Italian and is probably derived from the Latin word labes, which means a fall.
Lava stool is made of Lava rocks from the Etna volcano on the island of Sicily, Italy, one of the world’s most active volcanoes with eruptions occurring beneath the sea since about 500,000 years ago.
During submarine eruptions, the molten magma meets the sea, and its violent encounter with water sculpts the rock into fluid, organic forms that seem to freeze movement itself. Each fragment thus carries within it the memory of that encounter — a fleeting instant of transformation made eternal.
The rocks seem frozen and suspended in an infinite cosmic moment, like a sort of underwater cross section that has flung open the doors to this ancestral activity of the Universe, in all its majesty and wonder.
Lava is a meditation on terrestrial matter with its gaze turned toward the cosmos, where time solidifies into stillness and energy becomes reflection.
The natural stone surface is left uncovered, revealing the tactile power of the material — its density, its silent strength, its primordial warmth. Each fragment tells of the slow cooling of magma, the transformation of chaos into form, of fluid fire turned solid and eternal.

]]> HORIZONS Pouf / Low Tables https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/horizons-pouf-low-tables/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/horizons-pouf-low-tables/ Horizons is a reflection on Planetary Geology — the science that studies the internal structures and surfaces of celestial bodies such as planets and their moons.
The prefix geo, usually tied to Earth, becomes here a bridge between worlds. Through abstraction, the project reveals how the geomorphologies of other planets often mirror our own — reminding us that the language of matter is universal.
And yet, beyond this cosmic perspective, Horizons surprises us with an unexpected softness — a tactile and deeply human pleasure.
he shapes of its reliefs originate from 3D models of selected areas of the Italian Alps, abstracted and blended with imagined planetary terrains. The vertical sides evoke the geological stratigraphy of the planets in our solar system, while the upper surface is made of soft Nubuck leather, inviting touch. Beneath lies recycled polyurethane foam, enveloped in a thin layer of soft rubber mixed with stone powder and real soil, giving each piece its own organic tone and texture — always unique, always alive.
In Horizons, Earth and the cosmos meet in a single gesture — a landscape that invites rest, contemplation, and the rediscovery of what connects us to the universe.

]]> Velvet HORIZONS Pouf https://alcarol.com/collections/geomorphic-collection/velvet-horizons-pouf/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/velvet-horizons-pouf/ Velvet terrain where light becomes landscape. Horizons Velvet reveals cosmic depth in softness and shimmer.

]]> Horizons reflects on planetary geology and human perception — an abstraction of terrains both terrestrial and celestial, now softened into everyday form.
In this version, the top surface is made of sumptuous velvet, its fibers catching and layering light with an intrinsic holographic effect. The velvet plays with incident rays, shimmering and shifting as shadows move. Beneath, soft recycled foam is enveloped in a thin shell of rubber infused with stone powder and real soils, giving each piece organic texture and color. The vertical sides echo geological stratigraphy from both Earth and imagined planets.
Here, velvet becomes a luminous terrain: tactile, alive, and subtly transformative. Horizons Velvet invites you to experience the poetry of matter — where planetary reliefs meet the softness of skin and the dance of light.

]]> 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 Side Table A https://alcarol.com/collections/imprint-collection/leafprint-side-table-a/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:56 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/leafprint-side-table-a/ Made from a gem-shaped volume in copper-plated steel – inspired by the prismatic structures of metallic minerals – the Leafprint Side 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.

]]> Fisheye EXCL Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/special-projects/fisheye-excl-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fisheye-excl-stool/ 10 years after the first presentation of the classic FishEye Stool alcarol present FishEye EXCL. Stool _ Limited Edition.

It is made with the same materials (wooden poles of Venice encased in translucent resin like lagoon water) but with a completely different effect.

For the making of FishEye EXCL. alcarol has exaggerated the reaction of the resin to emphasize the formation of internal cracks like those of a frozen lagoon and also frozen air bubbles released from the cavities that make this wood so unique all over the world.
]]> FUNGI Inclined Stool/Side table https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-inclined-stool-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-inclined-stool-side-table/ The Fungi Inclined Stool is crafted from a single wooden plank, delicately split into two inclined parts with a fine blade. What once was whole is now divided — yet held together by a central cast of translucent resin, evoking the invisible current of time.
This wood bears the subtle imprint of fungal life. In the final stages of a tree’s life cycle, specialized fungi begin to break down the dense lignin, marking the wood with unpredictable veining, textures, and pigment lines. These signs are not flaws, but nature’s intimate calligraphy — a dialogue between life and decay.
Fungi live in the air, dormant until the right conditions awaken them. Their growth is a singular alchemy of time, place, and climate, making each piece utterly unique. alcarol captures this unrepeatable instant, preserving not just the form, but the process — a fragile balance between disintegration and design.
The result is an object that defies gravity and expectation: not just a seat or table, but a fragment of nature’s slow transformation, suspended.

]]> SURFACING TRUNK Stool / Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/surfacing-trunk-stool-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/surfacing-trunk-stool-side-table/ Surfacing Trunk Stool is crafted from discarded sections of dead trees, sourced from the wetlands of the Italian Dolomites. Its natural bark surface, still bearing mosses and tiny native plants, is preserved in a transparent resin that recalls the still water of its habitat.
By filling the irregular cavities with resin, alcarol doesn’t only restore structure, it freezes a moment in time, just before nature’s cycle would reclaim the material. What was once overlooked becomes a quiet presence, holding the memory of a forest floor immersed in silence and slow decay.
This is not just a stool, but a fragment of territory surfacing from below, suspended between end and rebirth.

]]> 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.

]]> CREEK Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/undergrowth-collection/creek-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/creek-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. ]]> FLOATING KARST Fisheye Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/floating-karst-fisheye-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/floating-karst-fisheye-stool/ Karst stone tells a story of erosion — shaped over millennia by the unseen force of water, dissolving rock and carving voids deep within the Earth. From the Dolomites’ ancient formations, alcarol has salvaged fragments of this landscape, preserving their textures and natural mosses in transparent resin that captures a still moment of geological transformation.
The Floating Karst Fisheye Side Table transforms the linear story of erosion into a circular, distorted vision. Its cylindrical form acts as a lens — a fisheye of matter and memory — magnifying the stone’s inner depths, warping perception, and offering a widened view of impermanence.
The stone appears to levitate within a volume of pure stillness, as if time were being viewed from another angle — slowed, stretched, suspended.
A metaphysical presence: not just a side table, but a curved fragment of terrain, captured in the act of transformation and held forever in its distorted, timeless instant.

]]> 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.

]]> WETLAND Stool/Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/wetland-collection/wetland-stool-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:32 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/wetland-stool-side-table/ Abonos—a Celtic name for the rare “fossil” wetland wood—comes from ancient trunks discovered in a few alluvial areas of the Alps, where minerals and water initiated a slow semi-fossilization process beneath the riverbeds. Over centuries, this submerged wood developed a unique chromatic spectrum, shifting from golden tones to deep black, shaped by the silent flow of time and the substances carried by the water. No two pieces share the same shades.
Resurfacing after millennia, this material emerges like a jewel of the past, recovered through delicate and complex craftsmanship. In this Wetland Stool, alcarol surrounds its organic shapes with transparent resin that recalls the water which preserved it, freezing an instant in time. The piece becomes a submerged fragment revealed, a suspended memory where the past is crystallized and made tangible.
The resin enhances every grain, while the untouched wood surfaces retain their natural warmth—allowing you to perceive both the vulnerability of nature and the endurance of time. As a stool or side table, this object is not only functional, but also a poetic reminder of what flows, what survives, and what resurfaces.

]]> 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.

]]> WETLAND Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/wetland-collection/wetland-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/wetland-side-table/ 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 extraordinary wetland timber—originates from ancient trees buried in Alpine alluvial areas, where minerals and water initiated a slow semi-fossilization beneath layers of sediment. Over centuries, currents bonded iron and minerals with the tannins of the wood, hardening its structure and colouring its grain through a spectrum that shifts from gold to deep black—tones and patterns that never repeat.
Once recovered through patient, meticulous work, this ancestral material resurfaces like a jewel of the past, bearing the memory of flowing waters and vanished landscapes. The Wetland Low Table embraces its organic shapes, preserving their essence and revealing every mark of their journey.
Below, a steel column rises like a solemn pillar, lifting this fragment of nature as if it were a timeless shard of landscape preserved in suspension. The contrast is intentional: the elemental weight of history above, the pure clarity of structure below—matter and time held in balance.
What emerges is a piece that is both object and memory: the endurance of wood shaped by water, elevated and revealed for the present.

]]> CRYSTAL Peatwood https://alcarol.com/collections/peatland-collection/crystal-peatwood/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/crystal-peatwood/ Crystalline minerals are known for their sharp-angled faces and precise geometric growth, where atoms align in ordered, repeating structures. The Crystal Peatwood tables draw inspiration from this natural formation process—solid prisms expanding in multiple directions and heights—bridging the organic irregularity of wood with the pure geometry of crystal growth.
The wood itself is ancient peat-preserved oak, darkened over centuries beneath oxygen-poor wetland soils. Minerals and tannins slowly reacted underground, hardening and colouring the wood in deep, rare shades, while keeping its story intact.
A crystal-clear infill completes the prisms, flowing between the live edges and preserving the narrative of the material without hiding it—as if time were suspended inside a transparent mineral.
Below, burnished steel bases evoke the art of fine jewelry, like precious stones carefully set to hold and elevate their value. The result is a sculptural trio that unites geology, memory and craftsmanship, revealing the hidden geometries of nature in contemporary form.

]]> 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. ]]> ANCHOR TWIST https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/anchor-twist/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/anchor-twist/ Anchor Twist is born from two fragments of Venetian Briccola oak poles, their surfaces carved by salt, molluscs, and decades beneath the lagoon’s restless tides. The light that passes between these two vertical elements evokes an underwater current, a hidden flow that once moved silently through the depths of Venice.
In the tradition of alcarol’s sectioning, the space between the poles is filled with a transparent resin that embodies the water once flowing there. The resin captures air bubbles, reflections, and traces of light, freezing the motion of the lagoon into a solid, translucent flow.
Through this process, Anchor Twist becomes a crystallized stream — a sculptural echo of the underwater life of Venice. Two ancient poles frame a current that no longer moves, yet still shimmers with quiet energy: where the flow of a hidden river is crystallized in stillness, captured between wood and light.
Anchor Twist is not just an object, but a living section of the Venetian Lagoon — a meeting of nature, craft, and suspended time.

]]> 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.

]]> FLOATING KARST Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/floating-karst/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/floating-karst/ Karst is a landscape born of water — shaped not by force, but by time. Over thousands of years, acidic rain filters through cracks in soluble rock, like the Dolomites’ ancient formations, dissolving the earth from within. The result is a hidden terrain of sinkholes, vanishing streams, and cavernous voids carved by turbulent, unseen flows.
From this quiet geological drama, alcarol has salvaged fragments of local karst stone, still marked by native mosses and lichens. Their textured surfaces — worn by water and layered with time — are encased in a transparent resin that mirrors the stillness of the very element that once sculpted them.
The Floating Karst Side Table is a metaphysical object, a section of land, weathered by movement, now suspended in stillness. A stone seemingly levitates above its base, as if time itself had paused mid-erosion. What was once fluid is now fixed; what was once impermanent becomes form. It is a fragment of the Earth held in balance, between presence and absence, matter and memory.

]]> 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.

]]> RAPOLANO Low Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/rapolano-low-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:19 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/rapolano-low-table/ Three million years ago, the Chianti hills overlooked a vast inland sea. In that ancient basin, thermal waters carried sediments through time — layer after layer — settling, shifting, and sculpting the land. As the sea slowly withdrew, it left behind a territory etched by water and wind: a stratified memory of beaches, lagoons, and shallow depths.
From this landscape of transformation comes Rapolano Travertine, stone born of warm mineral-rich springs, used since the time of the Etruscans and Romans.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol salvaged fragments of this eroded stone, their natural cavities filled with transparent resin, a still echo of the thermal waters that once flowed through them. In this state of suspended clarity, the stone seems to float above time.
The Rapolano Low Table is more than a functional surface: it’s a miniature landscape, a geological memory made visible. A fragment of territory shaped by ancient flows, now still, now quiet — where the turbulence of millennia has been paused, preserved, and made eternal.

]]> Phellem Low Table https://alcarol.com/collections/phellem-collection/phellem-low-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/phellem-low-table/

Phellem is the outermost layer of tree bark, a living skin that protects, adapts and records the story of each species. This collection celebrates its astonishing biodiversity, revealing a world of colours, textures and patterns that would otherwise remain unseen.
When bark is wounded, the tree releases a complex liquid that hardens upon contact with air, creating a natural resin barrier that shields its vital layers from fungi, bacteria and parasites. Inspired by this defence, alcarol preserves each bark surface with an innovative bio-sourced transparent resin, echoing nature’s own gesture while keeping every botanical detail intact, as it appeared in its original habitat.
In this table, three different bark species are combined and elevated at three distinct heights, creating a spatial dialogue — a miniature forest in which each fragment stands with its own character, yet in harmony with the others.
At the base, intersecting metal arms spread like roots, supporting and grounding the pieces. Above, the bark surfaces rise as three trunks in conversation, suggesting movement, diversity and the silent architecture of woodland ecosystems.
The Phellem Low Table becomes a small, poetic landscape — a forest distilled into form, where matter, memory and biodiversity are preserved and elevated.

 

]]> 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.

]]> PEATLAND Black Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/peatland-collection/peatland-black-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/peatland-black-stool/ alcarol has recovered extraordinary black oak trunks from a small Alpine peatland, radiocarbon-dated to the 5th century BC. In these oxygen-poor wetlands, buried wood survived ancient time: minerals and iron salts reacted with its tannins, gradually colouring it from deep brown to near black and increasing its density.
The peat-preserved oak emerges now as a solid block, a fragment of nature and time, carefully seized, cut and shaped. In the Peatland Stool, this block becomes a seat—a sectioned monument of matter, where the tree’s history is frozen and re-embodied.
Natural live edges remain intact, celebrating erosion and age. Transparent elements echo the water that once protected the wood, while the sectioned surfaces invite touch—so you may feel the warm organic vibrancy of a material millions of moments in the making.
Here is more than a stool: it is a fragmented relic of deep time, recast in contemporary form. A piece where wood, water, earth and time converge into a singular presence—rooted in the past, present in the now.

]]> PEATLAND Bench https://alcarol.com/collections/peatland-collection/peatland-bench/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/peatland-bench/ Alcarol has recovered extraordinary black oak trunks preserved in a remote Alpine peatland, aged through centuries beneath acidic, oxygen-poor water and sediment. This peat environment prevented normal decay, while iron salts and minerals reacted with the wood’s tannins, darkening it and increasing its hardness. Each trunk tells a story of deep time and silent transformation.
In the Peatland Bench, the wood ascends from its earthly origin, stretches outward as seating surface, and then symbolically returns toward the ground, completing a loop of time and matter. The structure is bound by an invisible angular junction, precise and concealed, reinforcing the notion of continuity and seamless transition—a bench where joinery disappears and the material flows freely.
The natural live edges remain intact, their erosion-carved contours preserved to remind the viewer of a wood shaped by water, sediment and centuries. Transparent cast elements evoke the still waters that once enveloped the tree, yet allow the hand to touch the warm, living surface of ancient oak.
This is not just a bench—it is a bridge across epochs, where nature’s rhythm of ascending and returning is honoured in form and function. A seat that invites presence and reflection, rooted in the land, shaped by time, and crafted without visible seams. ]]> 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. ]]> SURFACING FISHEYE https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/surfacing-fisheye/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/surfacing-fisheye/ Surfacing Fisheye is sculpted from a single cylindrical section of Venetian Briccola oak — a fragment of wood that once stood immersed in the lagoon, patiently shaped by salt, tides, and time. Its circular form becomes a lens, bending light and vision like the eye of a fish gliding beneath the waters of Venice.
Through a transparent resin that fills the natural voids left by marine life, the piece captures air, bubbles, and reflections — transforming water’s movement into still clarity. The resin becomes a living membrane, magnifying the inner topography of the wood and preserving its outer skin untouched, as if the plank were seen through a liquid eye.
From every angle, the cylindrical volume reveals a shifting perception — a fisheye view of submerged Venice, refracted and stilled within its transparent body. More than a stool or side table, Surfacing Fisheye offers the gaze of a Venetian fish: an intimate, curved vision of a hidden underwater world, frozen in luminous calm.

]]> RAPOLANO Stools https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/rapolano-stools/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:42:05 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/rapolano-stools/ Beneath the hills of Siena, Rapolano has long been a land of flowing thermal waters and ancient stone. For millennia, underground springs have carved their way through the earth, sculpting caverns and chambers within layers of mineral-rich travertine — a rock used by the Etruscans, cherished by the Romans.
Formed by the slow precipitation of minerals in subterranean waters, Rapolano Travertine reveals a fibrous, concentric texture, shifting in tone from ivory to rust — a geological tapestry shaped by time.
In collaboration with Vaselli, alcarol has retrieved fragments of this eroded stone, preserving their natural voids in a crystal-clear resin that echoes the thermal waters once coursing through them. But here, the flow is stilled.
The Rapolano Stools are vertical cross-sections of the Earth’s crust — miniature underground landscapes frozen in time. What was once hidden in the depths now rises to the surface: a fragment of territory carved by water, suspended in silence, where the past is made visible, and the impermanent becomes eternal. ]]> KARST Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/bedrock-collection/karst-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/karst-stool/ Karst is a landscape shaped not by force, but by the patient dissolution of stone. Over thousands of years, acidic waters flowed through the cracks of soluble rocks — like those of the Dolomites — carving an underground world of cavities, sinkholes, and hidden rivers.
In this ever-changing terrain, alcarol retrieved fragments of local karst stone, their surfaces still bearing traces of mosses, lichens, and the erosion of ancient flows. These time-marked skins are now suspended in a transparent resin, like water stilled in its motion — freezing the instant, preserving the trace.
The Karst Stone Side Table is a section of Earth’s crust, lifted from subterranean silence. It reveals a miniature, ancestral seascape — shaped by fluid movement, now motionless. A fragment of land where the echo of water lingers in the cavities it once carved, and where impermanence becomes enduring form.
This is not just a table — it is a suspended topography, a quiet memory of submerged time.

]]> 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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]]> FUNGI Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-stool-poplar/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-stool-2/ The Fungi Stool is a block of wood obtained from a dead Poplar tree with its native populations of fungi, inside and outside the log. The final stages in the life cycle of a tree attracts specialised fungi organisms which attack the wood breaking down the tough lignin layer that protects it.
Fungi are in the air. They just await the opportunity to take advantage of the right conditions to grow and transform the organic matter. Wood decay fungi is always unique. No two pieces are exactly the same because there’s precise time, place and environmental conditions for its genesis.

]]> FUNGI Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-stool-3/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-stool-3/ The Fungi Stool is a block of wood obtained from a dead walnut tree with its native populations of fungi, inside and outside the log. The final stages in the life cycle of a tree attracts specialised fungi organisms which attack the wood breaking down the tough lignin layer that protects it.
Fungi are in the air. They just await the opportunity to take advantage of the right conditions to grow and transform the organic matter. Wood decay fungi is always unique. No two pieces are exactly the same because there’s precise time, place and environmental conditions for its genesis.

]]> Chess Side Table https://alcarol.com/collections/phellem-collection/chess-side-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/chess-side-table/ Phellem is the outer layer of tree bark, a living skin that protects, adapts and carries the unique character of each species. When injured, the tree releases a liquid that hardens into natural resin, sealing the wound and defending the vital layers beneath. Inspired by this instinctive gesture, alcarol preserves selected bark surfaces with a bio-based transparent resin, freezing their textures exactly as they appeared in their original habitat.
The Chess Side Table reinterprets the ancient art of inlay, unveiling the richness of different bark species and overcoming the rigid dualism of the classic black-and-white chessboard. Each square becomes a natural tile with its own tone, rhythm and grain, as if every move on the board were dictated by the forest rather than by rules.
The asymmetrical composition brings dynamism and versatility, while the metal base — designed to slide beneath a sofa — offers flexibility in use, adapting to changing spaces. More than a side table, it is a game of matter and meaning, where nature replaces abstraction, and strategy gives way to sensibility.
A surface to place objects, or thoughts — a chessboard where every square is alive.

]]> FOGGY Coffee Table https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/foggy-coffee-table/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/foggy-coffee-table/ The Foggy Coffee Table is shaped from Venetian Briccola oak planks, their edges worn by salt, tides, and the slow hands of time. Each contour whispers of lagoon currents, molluscs, and the long immersion of wood beneath the waters of Venice.
Along the periphery, the wood is embraced by translucent resin — a misty band that protects and seals its margins. The resin flows like fog over the grain, capturing air, subtle light, and suspended breath, as though preserving a hidden moment of lagoon atmosphere. Wrapped in this silent haze, the table becomes a submerged memory — the meeting of water and wood in suspended clarity.
In its very presence, Foggy evokes a fragment of Venice veiled in mist: as if the table were born from the vapors that hover above the canals, eternally holding a fleeting whisper of the lagoon’s soul.

“At break of day stars fade with envy seeing the charms of Venice emerge from the fog”

Mieczyslaw Kozlowski, Le Maschere di Venezia

]]> MAREALE Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/bricola-collection/mareale-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/mareale-stool/ The Mareale Stool rises from a single disc of Venetian Briccola oak. Once submerged in lagoon currents, its edges worn by salt and molluscs — each contour a testament to time’s slow hands. Encircling this wooden heart, transparent resin bands flow like liquid water, protecting its jagged margins and preserving a singular moment carved by the tides.
The resin captures light, air, and whispering reflections, as if sealing the breath of the lagoon into the stool’s skin. A metaphysical steel pillar supports this rotating core, granting the piece balance and elevation — as though the memory of water is held aloft in space.
Mareale is not merely a stool: it is a crystallized tide, where wood, resin, and steel converge in a silent rotation, rendering eternal a fleeting whisper of Venice’s aquatic soul.

]]> FUNGI Stool https://alcarol.com/collections/fungi-collection/fungi-stool/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:53 +0000 https://alcarol.com/collections/no-collection/fungi-stool/ The Fungi Stool originates from a block of Apple wood, retrieved in its final stage of life, still bearing the visible traces of fungal activity both inside and out. In the quiet decay of the log, specialised fungi gradually break down the protective lignin layer, opening the wood to transformation.
Fungi are invisible travelers in the air, patiently waiting for the right conditions to awaken and reshape matter. No two colonies are alike — each imprint is a singular record of time, place, and environment.
Through the simple gesture of sectioning, alcarol reveals this hidden world. The exposed planes invite the senses to experience the intimate transformation of nature, where organic textures become artworks.
Encased in a pure resin volume that evokes the stillness of winter ice, the natural live edges and fungal patterns are preserved at the threshold between life and decomposition. A fleeting metamorphosis, crystallized in form and memory.

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