Nature & Artfice

Second Edition

 If the first edition of Nature & Artifice set the foundations for a dialogue between organic matter and digital intervention, this second edition refines that conversation into a more focused and cohesive gesture. Rather than exploring a range of shapes and sources, we have chosen to concentrate on a single material: parota root — a form whose expressive irregularity becomes both subject and collaborator in the design process.

These roots, sourced responsibly from the Mexican tropics, are selected for their sculptural potential. Each one carries within it a visual weight — a density of form and movement — that challenges conventional ideas of symmetry and composition. We do not seek to tame them, but to respond to them.

Once scanned, the roots reveal a labyrinth of natural logic. Using advanced CAD and CAM technologies, we generate a structural complement that doesn’t override this logic but instead amplifies it — giving the piece grounding and coherence without diminishing its wildness. This counterpart, precisely manufactured, becomes the bridge between function and expression.

The result is a new series of tables that operate as sculptural presences — each one informed entirely by the specific morphology of the root it emerges from. There are no templates, no repetitions. Each piece exists as a singular convergence of nature’s unpredictability and human intention.

Conceived for contemporary living spaces, these tables are not nostalgic artifacts but rather forward-looking compositions. They speak of integration — not just between material and technique, but between nature’s inheritance and the evolving language of design.

The images presented are digital renderings of the second edition. The pieces are currently in production and final physical characteristics may vary slightly from the visualizations shown.