Here’s another project from Dutch designer Anke Weiss, this time a table made from 150 bonsai trees.
The trees take seven years to grow. Weiss then joins them using traditional carpentry techniques and coats the structure with epoxy resin.
The flat top of the table exposes the structure of the wood itself, achieved through years of compressed growth.
Weiss also created the Packaging Lights we featured a few months ago, and the Love in the City project we posted on Valentines day.
Here’s an explanation from Weiss:
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Bonsai – Structure #2 or Bonsai Tree table
material: 150 bonsai trees, epoxy
technique: carpentry (wood-on-wood connections)
measurements: h 50 cm, d 80 cm
This work is the result of a research project about scale. The “network” structure can be found in every scale: by looking in as far as possible (cells, molecules, etc.), or by looking on the natural human scale (veins, lungs, trees, riverbeds, maps etc.), or by looking as far out as possible (solar system, galaxies). Even representations of the virtual world (the internet) resemble this structure.
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