BAOBAB SIDE TABLE | Sculptural Stoneware Side Table

A tree carried home in the memory, long before it was ever shaped by hand.

Sandrine Herlin's Baobab collection grew out of childhood memories of Guinea-Conakry, where the baobab is the national emblem and where the artist spent part of her early years. Trained as an illustrator before turning to ceramics, Herlin builds each piece by coil and slab, techniques she keeps deliberately spontaneous, allowing an assumed unevenness and a living quality to remain visible in the clay. 

The table's tapering cylindrical body is worked in stoneware left largely raw, its surface built up in distinct registers that read like the layered life of a trunk. A cluster of circular perforations, some no larger than a pinhole, others cut wide enough to see through, scatters across the upper body like insect bore-holes in old bark.

Materials: White stoneware, partial satin white glaze. 
Colours and finishes: Available in white, rust, or black stoneware, please inquire for details.
Height (cm): 53 
Weight (kg): 17-20