AX - HYPNOS

The AX series born with the goal of express the simplest possible combination between wood and steel.

Iron and wood: two materials that bring us back to the ancestral act of cutting a tree with an ax. The blade impacting the stump is a primary action from which every possible manmade wooden form is descended. Taming the tree trunk through the steel blade is in fact the initial invariant of every carpentry work since man began to use wood.

In the objects of this series, the interpenetration of the blade in the wooden mass is frozen in an elementary form.

Seats and table top in solid oak wood comes from a single trunk, cleaned, smoothed and treated with oil.
They are supported by four raw steel plates, 20 mm thick, left rough except for the soft waterproofing treatment performed with black beeswax.

The St Andrew’s cross-section disposition of legs guarantees the necessary stability.