Custom Wood and Epoxy Resin Decor and Furniture

It was only a couple of years ago that the world of interior design witnessed with wonder and excitement the birth of a new, almost revolutionary idea. It introduced an ingenious way of blending the organic beauty and robust character of natural wood with the thrilling options modern science provides to make the best use of the versatile aesthetic and functional qualities of epoxy resin. This original concept created a sensationally innovative know-how where art met craft to produce custom wood and epoxy resin decor and furniture items of stunning beauty and unquestionable durability.

Starting as an experimental, almost hobby-like occupation at first, production of wood and epoxy resin items has quickly developed into a cutting-edge trend in interior design. Today it offers a large variety of items of high-demand, such as wood-and-resin tables and various furniture pieces, decor items, and a broad array of design bits and elements.

Woodly crafts were among the first to embrace this new craftsmanship and master its appealing opportunities. Today they share with us some unique wood-and-resin decor items:

Creating a wood and epoxy resin piece, large or small all the same, is a meticulous process involving thorough knowledge of materials and professional skills to treat them properly with just as much (if not more!) creativity and patience.

The wood

For starters, wooden parts need to be carefully chosen, for they would eventually form the shape of the final item. Recognizing timber qualities and the techniques required for its processing is essential at this initial stage, but creativity has its say, too. For, different wood species display unique features in terms of color tones, structure and patterns, details that tell a story and allure imagination.

So, even at selecting the raw wooden slab, craftsmen are already envisioning the end aesthetic look of the specific piece yet to be produced, and are, therefore, looking for eye-catching ornamental details, such as unique organic contours, color hue, patterns, unusual structure or surface, and natural wood offers those in prolific abundancy.

The resin

Epoxy resin is a product of modern science. It’s a synthetic liquid material which offers a variety of useful applications due to its ability, when poured into a mold or onto any surface and cured, to create a chemically stable and environmentally resistant, hard and durable structure with excellent electricity and water insulating properties. This makes it an outstanding adhesive, coating and matrix material.

Its transparent consistency is its most fascinating quality, for it allows achieving the captivating 3D effect all epoxy resin items wow with. Clear epoxy resin can also be dyed with pigments to reach any color tone, hue and shade and in any desired intensity, which provides yet more exciting opportunities for the designers.

The process

Without going into much details, accordingly treated wooden components are carefully placed and fixed to form a mold of a pre-designed shape for the epoxy resin, which is being then slowly poured therein, until the dense liquid covers all cracks and gaps in the wooden slab. After it’s cured and post-treated, the epoxy resin shall have the wooden pieces embraced together in a firm, unbreakable bond, while creating in-between sensational 3D pictures of “flowing rivers”, “cosmic nebulas”, “ocean beaches” or entirely abstract and whimsical landscapes and shapes. The effect is always stunning!

The wood-and-resin exclusive artistic craftsmanship aims at creating decor pieces of unique designs. This unparalleled originality alone is a reason strong enough to explain the ever-rising popularity of this extraordinary art-craft. Add to it the highly sought-after and appreciated specific properties of the structural components of the end creations, and the wide range of areas this technique finds application in, shall need no explanation, either.

The wood-and-epoxy resin items are strong, sturdy and durable, but also incredibly beautiful and each one always one-of-a-kind. On desks, resin tables and countertops, bed headboards and entire doors, up to wall-art and decoration pieces of all kinds, shapes and sizes, wood-and-epoxy resin craft combines natural and man-made elements in a harmonious blend, creating a rare fusion of artistry and modernism, and adds unprecedented personality to any space.

Published in: Furniture | Author: Rossitsa