Atelier NL has made a series of wooden benches from trees uprooted in a huge storm that hit Eindhoven earlier this year, to sit alongside objects made from wood at their studio.
The Stormwood benches are made from timber slats cut from some of the nearly 1,000 trees felled during the storm that wrecked havoc across Eindhoven in June this year.
Benches at Dutch Design Week are made from trees that fell in a storm in June
The studio cut the tree trunks in half lengthways, then sliced these again to make long planks. The resulting timber lengths were stacked, with wooden pegs creating a a small space between them to allow the wood to dry out.
The end of each bench is printed with a unique number that identifies where it used to stand in the city. Each bench is tagged with a number so users can look up where the tree stood
Visitors to the Wildhout website can type in this number to learn more about the particular tree, as well as to access an interactive map that shows what has happened to other trees that came down in the storm.
For example, a number of benches are made from a particular oak that fell in the Lievendaal district in west Eindhoven.
The planks are held slightly apart to allow them to dry out
The series of benches are installed at Ketelhuisplein in the Strijp-S area, where many of the Dutch Design Week exhibitions are open to visitors this week. Once dry, the planks will be repurposed in due course.
Several of the benches are located in and around the Biobasecamp ...