Ab Ovo Bench by William Emmerson

William Emmerson "Ab Ovo' bench with solid bent walnut wood legs, woven leather cording and antiqued bronze stretcher. Elegant undulating shape and exquisite...

Fantastic old oak Bench - France, circa 1950s Simple shape and large in scale Dovetail joinery - extremely well made.

Rumbo bench by Jean-Baptiste Van den Heede Unique piece Signed and numbered Dimensions: L 31 x W 118 x H 42 cm Materials: mapple wood Also available in solid cherrywood and ot...

Matthias Biberon (Paris, 1977) lives and works in Perche (Normandy / France). He began working with wood in 2019, leaving behind photography and ceramics, which he had practiced successfully for many years. In wood, he finds the pleasure of imagining shapes and building them, with a combination of both naivety and attention to detail, and a freedom that neither conceptualism nor ceramics had given him. His furniture is organic, respecting the original shape of the wood and following its knots and veins. The search for balance and precision is one of the cornerstones of Matthias's work. Carefully sourced, the wood types used - Oak, Elm, Cedar, Walnut - have been dried for decades, giving them an unrivalled patina. His trademark? Visible construction and the blending of materials, with stone a natural addition to his creations; for each of them, he seeks a form of balance, purity and softness, a functionality that is both poetic and sculptural, the simplicity and force of a haiku. Passionate about art, it was while progressing towards Arts & Crafts that he embraced the aesthetics of functionalism, Mingeï and the thinking of William Morris. He is sensitive to the Arte Povera of Jannis Kounellis and Giovanni Anselmo, the Zen influence of John Cage, the freedom of Don Cherry...