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Nº M0009

Grain & Shadow Bench

Provenance unverified10% to the maker's community
Declared origin · DE
$2,808

Grain & Shadow is named for what American black walnut does under a raking light: the figure lifts and darkens in the same instant, so the seat seems to hold shadow inside the wood. Tania chose a board with a run of gentle crotch-figure toward one end and let it fall where a sitter's hand would rest. The 150 cm seat is carried on a pair of splayed trapezoidal legs, joined with hand-cut sliding dovetails that let the top move with the seasons without a gap ever opening. Hand-oiled, no stain — the colour is the tree's own. A one-of-a-kind piece, signed and dated beneath.

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Fibre composition

Solid American black walnut, hand-oiled, unstained

Care

Dry cloth only; a yearly oil refresh deepens the figure further.

Provenance

Sourced directly from Tania Fiuzie in DE. Each piece carries its object number (Nº M0009) and a note on the hands that made it.

Tania Fiuzie
EU atelier

Tania Fiuzie

Tania Fiuzie makes furniture the slow way, one piece at a time, in a small EU atelier where the loudest sound is usually a hand plane. What sets her work apart is simple: she works her own walnut — timber she owns, designs around, and shapes entirely by her own hands, from rough board to signed surface. She came to it through family: her grandparents' orchards held old Persian walnut trees, Juglans regia, and some of that wood — lawfully hers, gifted and inherited, milled and dried over years — still passes through her hands today, the clean route by which Persian walnut reaches her with no money ever flowing to Iran. Alongside it she selects European and American black walnut board by board. She cuts her own joints and signs nothing she would not keep herself. One of the people who built this house, she would still rather talk about the wood. Her pieces are made to be used hard and handed on: gallery-worthy in their making, built for a life of dinners, letters, and long ordinary evenings.
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