helena
A story on waste and care.
The way we treat what you get defines who you are and the dimension of your craft. It’s not only about the visual impact of things but it is also how and what took to get there. The process.
As a mainly wood-focused studio, the logs and slabs we source have the most efficient use while having the consciousness to elevate the raw material to a special piece. The curved lines drawn by time, the imperfections along its life and the way it is dried are the main directing points to get to where I want. Then it becomes something. At Barracao, it’s about the process, the design and the carefull thought on every move trough out the weeks it takes to bring our pieces to life.
“What’s left after what’s done”
With a very practical approach and sustainable thinking, it came to the idea to use the small scraps to something other than firewood. Even though it may be a good way to end its life, it would be better if it could be appreciated on a surface. With the HELENA table these principles and thoughts were applied and made sense out of it all. Its intense colours, the hand curved lines, the volume shaped trough serendipity makes this piece what it is. Meant to break the squared-like pattern, the edges were oddly worked to contrast this composition.
220x110x74cm.
2022
