Discover Germany | Special Theme | Design Trends 2017
Cherishing the natural beauty of oak wood Since 2013, the furniture design studio NUTSANDWOODS based in Berlin has been offering timeless tables, storage pieces, seating and accessories made of fine oak wood and steel. Due to the high quality of the material and craftsmanship, the products of the young label are built for eternity. TEXT: NADINE CARSTENS I PHOTOS: OUR FOOD STORIES
When Philipp Roessler, founder and creative mind behind NUTSANDWOODS, wanted to buy a new dinner table with a solid oak wood top, he simply could not find a piece that met his expectations. Most tables he saw in furniture stores or in online shops had an industrial look and consisted of many small pieces of wood that were glued laminated. But what he was rather looking for were dinner tables with a few long planks. In addition, he wanted to have a table top where the 18 | Issue 46 | January 2017
original, curved shape of the tree is visible on the edges. “To my mind, the natural wooden material appears particularly beautiful if you try to remain its original shape instead of straightly cutting off the long sides,” Roessler explains. “Oak trees usually grow for 110 to 150 years before they are felled and their wood is dried for production. Since I am fascinated by the story each tree has to tell, it is important to me to have a piece of furniture that appreciates the tree’s long past and beauty.”
Combining contrary materials such as wood and iron was another aspect, Roessler had in mind for his dining table. “This mixture between contrary materials has always fascinated me, especially in architecture,” Roessler explains. Therefore, he wanted to own a piece of furniture in a similar style. As he did not find an affordable dinner table to which all these criteria applied, he decided to design and build a table by himself.“I went to a warehouse that offered the most beautiful tree trunks. They were sawed in planks of various sizes and still had a bark.” As luck would have it, he did not know that he first had to dry the two oak planks before preparing them. Therefore, he had to leave the wood in the middle of his living