"Benedetto 80" Oak Table by Michele de Lucchi
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Michele de Lucchi 'Benedetto 80' table for Produzione Privata, solid oak, hand-rubbed with oil to preserve the natural effect of its wood. The top is composed of boards paired with the traditional 'Filo morto' system, allowing the wood to breathe and move. The legs are comb-tongued and fastened to the top with four screws. Thus the table can be easily dismantled and conveniently stowed. Italy, designed 2012, 65 cm high, 80 cm deep
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- Oak - Native to Europe and England, oak has been used for joinery, furniture and building since the beginning of the medieval civilisation. It is a pale yellow in colour when freshly cut and darkens with age to a mid brown colour.
Oak as a furniture timber was superceded by walnut in the 17th century, and in the 18th century by mahogany,
Semi-fossilised bog oak is black in colour, and is found in peat bogs where the trees have fallen and been preserved from decay by the bog. It is used for jewellery and small carved trinkets.
Pollard oak is taken from an oak that has been regularly pollarded, that is the upper branches have been removed at the top of the trunk, result that new branches would appear, and over time the top would become ball-like. . When harvested and sawn, the timber displays a continuous surface of knotty circles. The timber was scarce and expensive and was used in more expensive pieces of furniture in the Regency and Victorian periods.
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