Eros Brut

The Eros Brut table exemplifies Moroccan sculptor Hamza Kadiri's artistic vocabulary and his rarefied wood expertise. Entirely hand-crafted by the artist and his team of master woodcrafters from one solid trunk of Ash, the piece highlights the painstaking details achieved by the numerous hours of carving and charred finishing using the traditional Japanese Shou-Sugi-Ban technique. The piece is then hand-coated with layers of organic beeswax finish. The cantilevered tabletop is secured with a sculptural bronze medallion. Hamza Kadiri's body of work results from a long lineage of wood expertise and a lifelong passion for the material, its essence and its possibilities. Each piece is seeded in the artist's close attention to the natural raw material. Kadiri starts by observing the wood's personality, textures and lines. He then feels the furrows of the former veins through which the sap used to flow. It's only once he has fully immersed himself in the matrix of the wood that Kadiri starts engaging with it physically, and attempts to conduct the medium and direct it toward the shapes and forms he envisioned in response to it.