Hand-sculpted cabinet with original petrified oak, Pierre De ValckOxidized and waxed aluminium -unique and signedMeasures: 55 x 34 x 70 cmSmall sized cabinet with two hinged doors and four shelves. Mid-cabinet sits a fragment of Petrified Summeroak, estimated some 55 million years old and found in the forest of Trooz in Liège, Belgium.ProvenanceForest of Trooz, Liège, Belgium. circa 55 million years old.Pierre De ValckPierre De Valck (1991) born in Brussels, is a Ghent-based designer with a childhoodfascination for archeology and collecting historical artefacts. His furniture attempts toharness the power of ancient geological processes in a contemporary bodice. Modernantiquities that allow the rediscovery of an ancestral past.Pierre De Valck manually encrusts each piece of furniture with unique minerals andstones of exceptional historical value. Leaving the minerals untouched, the merefunctional is transcended, rendering the pieces both unique and authentictestimonies of our collective memory.