WAMETISÉ: FURNITURE
GENERAL INFO
- LOCATION
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ARCO Madrid
- DATE
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March 2025
- COLLABORATORS
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ESTO Estudio
- TYPOLOGY
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Design, Research
Developed in collaboration with Esto Estudio, the exhibition furniture was realized by preserving and distressing wood by applying fire to it. The flame chars the wood, turning the top layer into black coal. The wood, blackened and textured by the heat, oscillates between its resistance and vulnerability, between what the heat consumes and what it leaves behind. This furniture shows its process, where the marks of combustion are not just a trace but a new form of permanence.
Wametisé Furniture. Photo by Esto Estudio
The Pyrocene, the era of fire driven by human activity and climate change, has placed the Amazon in a critical situation. The FIRM's hotspots revealed by the satellite image are part of the threat to its existence as the largest tropical forest in the world and an essential regulator of the global climate. New fires, intensified by deforestation and prolonged droughts, are transforming large areas of forest into degraded areas, releasing enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. This dynamic not only amplifies climate change but endangers the balance of the water cycle and biodiversity that sustain life in the region and beyond. In the closed spiral of relationships that the forest is, the ties are fragile, and the beings that inhabit it suffer from increasing and abrasive human activities such as logging, intensive agriculture, and indiscriminate burning of land.
Burning the wood creates a black coal finish.
The materiality of the proposal integrates elements that dialogue with the concept of Amazofuturism, adapting them to the needs and processes of the fair, but in close dialogue with other complexities of the ecological crises. Seeking to minimize the environmental impact, circular solutions and assembly systems that allow the disassembly and reuse of the construction elements have been prioritized.
Microscopic view of wood ashes
FURNITURE MAKING PROCESS
