UC158
shredded carton and woodchip mortar & old walnut boards
70x40x40 cm
Year built
2025
Function
Aux Table
Status
No longer available
Some sketches insist on generous volumes — forms that occupy space with confidence, that don't apologise for being large. The problem is always the same: a big form in solid wood becomes something you move once and regret.
Iñigo Calleja's answer was to invent a material. Amberlite — a mortar of crushed cardboard and recycled wood shavings applied by hand over a lightweight core.
Once polished, the shavings and fragments become visible: organic, precise, quietly beautiful in the way that only materials with a previous life can be.
Two small coffee tables, barely 60cm long, designed for sitting close to the ground. A tea room, a slow afternoon, a conversation that isn't in a hurry. The Amberlite surfaces carry the playfulness of the original drawings. The legs — turned from aged Spanish walnut, robustly cylindrical — keep them honest.
