Serene Ark

Chest in walnut, cm 40 x 23 x 23 h limited edition of 14 pieces. Construction features: structure composed with two openings. Finished manually by excavation using a wide planer. Finish: whitened on the edges and finished with three coats of wax impregnator. 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 certificate of guarantee that attests to its authenticity and limited edition. “The Custody is a small ark that welcomes and protects our most cherished 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, 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 that grows 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 (prov. Italy), worked from solid wood. Blocks assembled and hand-carved. 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 for Giuseppe Rivadossi's CUSTODIES 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; these were trees that farmers appreciated for their resistance and workability characteristics, 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 irreparably gone. Processing phases (each step is performed 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, the processing can begin: the wood is then rough-shaped, squared, and reconstituted into blocks with special glues to be able 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 desired form of the block of wood by directly excavating it with gouges and chisels, files, and sandpaper until the desired shape and result are achieved. The finishing of the surfaces then proceeds: whitening of the emerging parts; sanding with sepia paper of the surfaces; varnishing with an impregnator to close the pores of the wood; re-sanding of the surfaces with increasingly fine sepia papers; stripping; treatment with natural beeswax. Processing tools: For cutting the tree: band saw. For cutting the trunk: band saw, circular saw, edge planer, thickness planer. For excavation: specially made cutting steel gouges and chisels.

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