{"id":5502,"date":"2018-05-18T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/catalogo\/uncategorized\/carolingia"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:01","slug":"carolingia","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/catalogo\/custodie-en\/carolingia","title":{"rendered":"Carolingia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00abThe Custodia is a small ark that welcomes and protects our dearest possessions; it is the wrapping with which we ourselves lovingly envelop objects, the signs of our affections; it is a small gesture in which we recognise our relationship with Creation.<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Custodia is the home of our memory, a sign of love and a sign of how we ourselves feel loved and safeguarded.<\/em>\u00a0<em>We build these small dwellings with Walnut (Iuglans Regia), a noble and precious wood that is born and lives in our Pre-Alps.<\/em>\u00a0<em>We work the timber following ancient methods and knowledge; a lively sensitivity and great manual skill underlie the constructive honesty that guides us. Even in these small containers we wish to leave the mark of our vision of life\u00bb.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Giuseppe Rivadossi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The wood used: Italian walnut from mid-altitude mountain (prov. Italy), worked from solid wood. Blocks assembled and hollowed out by hand.<br \/>\nIuglans Regia (Italian Walnut) from mid-altitude mountain, sawn in January 1994, dried for 6 months as a trunk and then stacked on battens for 9 years in a covered but ventilated place.<\/p>\n<p>Mid-altitude mountain walnut has a particularly beautiful and characteristic structure and fibre colour. It is also stronger and more resistant than lowland walnut. Italian walnut is a rare wood, because it is a solitary and very sensitive tree, which does not grow in the forest, but only in areas where it can be tended and protected.<\/p>\n<p>The wood from which Giuseppe Rivadossi\u2019s CUSTODIE are made comes from walnut trees that are about a hundred years old.<br \/>\nFor the economy of those who lived in the foothill area, at the beginning of the last century, walnut was part of the productive economic cycle as a precious means of sustenance; these were trees that the peasants valued for their resistance and workability, but no less for the fruit they bore, and therefore they were held in regard, tended and protected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>The wood used for these cases therefore belongs to a civilisation, the peasant one, which today has irretrievably disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Stages of work (every step is carried out entirely by hand):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trunk used was felled in the right season of the year, January, and with a waning moon.<\/li>\n<li>After a few months the trunk was sawn into boards and immediately reassembled and left to rest for about 6 months. During this period the trunk &#8220;ferments&#8221;, evening out the colour and calming the internal tensions of the wood fibre itself.<\/li>\n<li>The wood was then debarked and dried in a dry, ventilated place.<\/li>\n<li>After about 10 years the work can begin: the wood is then roughed out, squared and reconstituted into a block with suitable glues so that it can be hollowed out and carved. These cutting and rejoining operations are necessary to obtain wood that, while undergoing variations due to the humidity of the surroundings, will not crack.<\/li>\n<li>Giuseppe Rivadossi gives the block of wood the desired shape by hollowing it directly with gouge and chisel, files and glasspaper, until the desired form and result are obtained.<\/li>\n<li>The surfaces are then finished: bleaching of the protruding parts; sanding of the surfaces with sepia paper; varnishing with an impregnating agent to close the pores of the wood; re-sanding of the surfaces with ever finer sepia papers; stripping; treatment with natural beeswax.<\/li>\n<li>Finish: finished with wax impregnating agent and stripped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Tools used:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For felling the tree: band saw.<\/li>\n<li>For sawing the trunk: band saw, circular saw, jointer plane, thicknesser plane.<\/li>\n<li>For hollowing: gouge and chisel in cutting steel, specially made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casket in walnut, cm 32,5 x 17,5 x 31 h. Limited edition of 14 pieces<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Solid Italian walnut (Iuglans Regia), hand-hollowed, bleached, finished with wax impregnating agent and stripped.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Each piece is signed and numbered. 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