The Cévennes Table: The MATERIAL

camera: Jodie Jacobson Melrose
edit: LeeAna Benson
sound: Evan Runyon
material: @david.studio.melrose

The Cévennes Table uses a modern mix of the same materials used in the 5th millennium BC. The word concrete comes from two Latin words meaning “to grow together” and “condensed, hardened clotted.” Concrete and plaster are born from ancient processes of foraging minerals and catalyzing them through heat and water. This distinct technique embodies the material's quality of rawness and functionality. The combinations of these very basic #elements creates a #chemicalreaction that #crystallizes into a solid form. Those bonds continue to strengthen as it dries, creating a truly #alchemic process of an earth-friendly substance that will last another millennia. Concrete and plaster exist in a long lineage of use by artists and artisans alike. At Studio Melrose we hold in mind the reality of material scarcity and climate crisis while continuing the tradition of makers who honor these materials for its fusing, materializing, transformational brilliance.

camera: Jodie Jacobson Melrose
edit: LeeAna Benson
sound: Evan Runyon
material: @david.studio.melrose