The Uranus tabletop is made of two specular burled poplar wood sections with live edges. These edges are encased in a transparent resin and supported by four transparent pillars that pierce and support the tabletop in an apparently inexplicable way.
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©Elisa Calabrese
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©Elisa Calabrese
©Elisa Calabrese
Andrea Forti & Eleonora Dal Farra
- Alcarol
- Furniture maker
- Belluno, Italy
- Master Artisan
Contact
Italian, English, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 04371848610
+39 04371848610
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Encapsulating natural elements
- • Andrea and Eleonora launched Alcarol in 2012
- • They craft tables and other furniture from natural materials and resin
- • They often re-use 'bricole', the wooden poles typical of the Venice Lagoon
Both Eleonora Dal Farra and Andrea Forti graduated in Venice – she as a restorer, he as an architect. In common they have a deep love for the city and its lagoon, as well as both being creative souls with a very practical approach to art. As such, after they became a couple in life, they naturally became a creative duo, too. Together they launched Alcarol in 2012 and began to make tables, benches, stools and other complements with an experimental method patented by themselves. This consists in using transparent resin to preserve natural materials – in particular the historic Venetian wooden poles called 'bricole'. Eleonora and Andrea also craft to preserve logs and rocks from the Dolomiti area, exactly as they appear in their original habitat. The result is dramatic furniture pieces that are both functional for everyday use and evocative of a place and its genius loci, namely its spirit and essence.
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Uranus table
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Palette side table
Palette side table is a coffee table made with birch barks of various types and species, covered with an extra clear resin layer. The base is burnished steel.
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Rapolano table
Rapolano dining table is made of a travertine slab with its natural crust, full of cavities, preserved in a transparent resin. Here, resin represents the water in which these Italian rocks lay submerged through various geological eras.
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Wetland streams table
Wetland streams table is made of fossil oak wood and its live edges are preserved in transparent resin. The resin represents the streams of water that have touched the wood for millennia. The natural wood surface is not covered by resin on the section planes.
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Moon dining table
The Moon tabletop is made of two specular burled poplar wood sections, with live edges. The latter are encased in a transparent resin and supported by three transparent pillars that pierce and support the table in an apparently inexplicable way.
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