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Starting with gnarly hunks of trees hilla shamia seamlessly merges wood and aluminum into industrial style furniture the tel aviv based designer pours the hot metal into leg molds that surround the organic material preserving the wood s shape and texture and ensuring that each console bench and stool is unique.
The following year she established her eponymous design studio in tel aviv focusing on product design with an emphasis on material research.
Hilla shamia an ingenious israeli artist and designer creates beautiful one of a kind wood and aluminum desks and stools using a unique method that marries cold aluminum and beautiful pieces of wood.
Wood casting is an amazing furniture line created by hilla shamia out of burned wood and aluminum.
We focus on material research and development of forms while drawing inspiration from the process of time and the supposed imperfections found in nature.
Hilla shamia originally showed off her wood casting furniture at the milan design week in 2012.
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She first started working with this unique technology of casting metal into wood in 2012.
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The tree logs and cast aluminum come in several different furniture pieces.
Her initial thought and obsession were the connection made between two materials without any mediating factor as well as the contrast between two very different substances.
She studied industrial design at holon institute of technology israel from 2007 to 2011 graduating with a bachelor s degree.
It s not clear whether any of the pieces created are still available to buy or any details of prices.
To create these unprecedented pieces shamia poured molten aluminum onto logs of raw cypress and eucalyptus that have been cut lengthwise.
The traces of liquid metal is visible in the wood cracks while the metal and wood surfaces come in.
May 15 2015 the project derives from the emotional need to create objects with character and natural imperfections.