Organic and undulating in nature, wood is rarely perfectly linear or a platonic solid. Nevertheless, humans have long adopted the abundant raw material to serve their own ends, and, nowadays, designers continue to explore its possibilities. From organic and largely untouched, to repurposed to the manufactured, geometric, and parametric, these designs start with raw timber and end with beautiful architectural products. Although the methods of creating these pieces may vary, what they have in common is these designs expose machined raw wood in their respective urban environments.
Beech, walnut, poplar, ambrosia, maple, and hickory: these are only five of many types of woods that Reclaimed Table offers, atop customizable bases in their unique and repurposed coffee tables.
The one of a kind Milo Slab Table comes from sustainably harvested trees that are hand built to order. Additionally, the unique tables are locally milled and dried.
Kebony Wood is known as a sustainable alternative to tropical hardwood and was named one of the world’s most promising clean technology companies in the Global Cleantech 100 competition in 2010 and 2011.
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Urban Woods by Yoshiaki Oyabu Architects
The designers of the Urban Woods installation created a chaotic assemblage of two-by-fours around an exterior of a building as a kind of abstracted manmade forest.
Wooden “Textiles” by Elisa Strozyk (via Bldgblog)
Wood can be cozy whether it’s in your fireplace or in the form of a blanket. Designer Elisa Strozyk creates unique wooden textiles in a new tactile experience. She explains, “Depending on the geometry and size of the tiles, each design shows a different behavior regarding flexibility and mobility.”
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Grown in renewable forests across Australia, designers of the Aesop Paris store chose Victorian Ash as their wood material. Each of the 3,500 pieces were hand cut and hand sanded to create a mix of rigid and simultaneously organic environment for their store.
Andre Joyau utilizes reclaimed beams as modern tables that he describes are both “tactile and aesthetically rich.”