London-based designer Brodie Neill has used over three kilometres of veneer taken from trees in a flooded forest in Tasmania to create the top of ReCoil, an oval dining table.
The designer used timber salvaged by Hydrowood, a company that specialises in harvesting timber underwater, to create the ReCoil table and a number of other items of furniture.
The trees were lost underwater in the 1980s when an area of virgin forest was flooded during the creation of a hydroelectricity scheme, creating Lake Pieman.
The table features veneers of huon pine, eucalyptus, Tasmanian oak, celery top pine, sassafras, myrtle and blackwood, which are all native to the Pieman River valley.
Neill used wood recovered from a lake in Tasmania to create ReCoil
In an interview with Dezeen's founder Marcus Fairs during London Craft Week, Neill shared how the wood is extracted from the water. "A company called Hydrowood has devised a way using modern technology to scan the lake by the riverbed to see the timbers that are there," he said.
"They're able to scan to see what it is and literally cut the tree off at the riverbed and pull them out of the water."
The Tasmanian timber sourcing company uses a barge with a crane attached to reach far into the lake where it cuts the tree at its base before extracting the wood from the water. This method leaves the river bed largely undisturbed.
The wood has been submerged underwater since the 1980s
Veneers from the various species of trees were...