Artifacts of Memory: Stories Forged in Enduring Detail

Tree Trunks made furniture for the home by Industria

Nature is a limitless source of inspiration. Industria Tree Trunk series reflects the imagery of a trunk’s cross section; its age rings, imposed in metal, are weathered with a bronze touch. Its organic likeness, and cracks and divots, when expressed in metal, rather than wood, suggests preservation of this aspect of nature’s beauty not normally exposed. Its sun-drenched warmth is swapped for the cool to touch material, preserving its transience, placing us face-to-face with an object that pensively urges us to protect and reflect on the aspects of life that must be remembered.

The Tree Trunk Coffee Table is all metal sculpted to form a tree stump, fit for a variety of interior styles. It is 94cm in diameter, 36cm tall, best paired with the Side Table 63cm in diameter and 54cm tall. The top is weathered bronze with growth ring embossed details, and the base is hammered in the same weathered bronze color.

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Tree Trunk reminds us of our place in the family of things, of the beauty that exists before us and will go on after us. Interior growth rings reveal the story of the tree in its environment; and when immortalized in steel tables, time is paused, and a chapter of the story is celebrated, and shared, adding new context to the spaces it inhabits.

Easily recognizable, its character prompts a space with a patchwork of memories — individual stories of trees, generations, our roots, or growth, that we share and pass down to connect with one another, in partnerships, friendships, or families. In design, it is crucial to understand the place of the object within the family of things, and what stories it has the potential to carry forward across time. This continual discovery in object, place, and person, preserved as furniture for the home, ties us to the beauty of existence, the common thread between us and nature.