Eros Brut
Designer/Manufacturer
Hamza KadiriCirca
2022
Description
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.
Hamza Kadiri
Hamza Kadiri
Hailing from a long lineage of wood experts, Moroccan artist Hamza Kadiri has honed his wood artistry from his workshop in Casablanca as well as his apprenticeships in Japan and travels around the world. With access to rare, precious wood kinds, Kadiri has created a body of work that reflects the artist’s reverence for wood, its properties, and its characteristics.
Sought after by international collectors, Kadiri’s highly sculptural, contemporary work embodies the artist’s mastery of marquetry and cabinetry. Inspired by mythology and classical art, Kadiri’s bold curves and textured surfaces magnify the material’s natural grains and patterns and the time-honored techniques involved.
Each piece of wood is meticulously chosen for its singularity, its essence, and inherent beauty. Today, Kadiri has developed a deeply personal visual language where the raw material, its nature, and personality dictate the shape and the skin of the ultimate piece.
Hamza Kadiri
Hailing from a long lineage of wood experts, Moroccan artist Hamza Kadiri has honed his wood artistry from his workshop in Casablanca as well as his apprenticeships in Japan and travels around the world. With access to rare, precious wood kinds, Kadiri has created a body of work that reflects the artist’s reverence for wood, its properties, and its characteristics.
Sought after by international collectors, Kadiri’s highly sculptural, contemporary work embodies the artist’s mastery of marquetry and cabinetry. Inspired by mythology and classical art, Kadiri’s bold curves and textured surfaces magnify the material’s natural grains and patterns and the time-honored techniques involved.
Each piece of wood is meticulously chosen for its singularity, its essence, and inherent beauty. Today, Kadiri has developed a deeply personal visual language where the raw material, its nature, and personality dictate the shape and the skin of the ultimate piece.
