CUSTODIES - CAROLINGIA

Box made of walnut, cm 32.5X17.5X31h limited edition of 14 pieces. Construction features: blocks assembled with vertical grain, solid national walnut (Juglans Regia) manually worked and excavated, bleached. Finish: finished with wax impregnation and stripped. Material: Juglans Regia (National Walnut) from the foothills. Cut in January 1994, dried for 6 months in log form and then slatted for 9 years in a covered but ventilated environment. Each piece is signed and numbered. It comes with a warranty certificate that certifies its authenticity and limited edition. “The Custody is a small ark that welcomes and protects our dearest belongings, it is the wrapping with which we lovingly envelop objects, the signs of our affections, it is a small gesture in which we recognize our relationship with Creation. The Custody is the home of our memory, it is a sign of love and a sign of how we feel loved and protected. We build these small abodes with Walnut (Juglans Regia), a noble and precious wood, which is born and lives in our Prealps. We work the essence following ancient methods and knowledge, a lively sensitivity and great craftsmanship are the basis of the constructive honesty that guides us. Even in these small containers, we want to leave the mark of our vision of life.” Giuseppe Rivadossi The wood used: National walnut from the foothills (province of Italy), worked from solid wood. Blocks assembled and excavated by hand. Juglans Regia (National Walnut) from the foothills cut in January 1994, dried for 6 months in log form and then slatted for 9 years in a covered but ventilated environment. The walnut from the foothills has a particularly beautiful and characteristic structure and fiber color. It is also stronger and more resistant than plain walnut. Italian walnut is a rare wood, as it is a very sensitive solitary tree that does not grow in the forest, but only in areas where it can be cared for and protected. The wood used to make the CUSTODIES by Giuseppe Rivadossi comes from walnuts that are about a hundred years old. For the economy of those living in the foothill area at the beginning of the last century, walnut was part of the productive economic cycle as a valuable element of sustenance; they were trees that farmers appreciated for their characteristics of strength and workability, but also for the fruit they produced, and therefore they were valued, cared for, and protected. The wood used for these custodies thus belongs to a civilization, that of the peasantry, which today is irretrievably lost. Processing stages (each step is carried out entirely by hand): The trunk used was felled in the appropriate season of the year, January, and with a waning moon. After a few months, the trunk was cut into planks and immediately reassembled and left to rest for about 6 months. During this period, the trunk “ferments,” evening out the color and calming the internal tensions of the wood fiber itself. The wood was then debarked and dried in a dry and ventilated place. After about 10 years, processing can begin: the wood is then rough-shaped, prismed, and reconstituted into blocks with special glues to be excavated and sculpted. These cutting and recompacting operations are necessary to have wood that, despite undergoing variations due to humidity in the environments, will not crack. Giuseppe Rivadossi shapes the block of wood directly with gouges and chisels, files, and sandpaper until he achieves the desired shape and result. The finishing of the surfaces then follows: bleaching of the emerging parts; sanding with sepia paper of the surfaces; varnishing with an impregnant to close the pores of the wood; re-sanding of the surfaces with increasingly fine sepia papers; stripping; treatment with natural beeswax. Finish: finished with wax impregnation and stripped. Processing tools: For cutting the tree: band saw. For cutting the trunk: band saw, circular saw, edge planer, thickness planer. For excavation: gouge and chisel made of specially designed cutting steel.

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