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Thuya is a dense, naturally fragrant wood worked in Morocco, notably around Essaouira. Our pieces are hand-turned or inlaid: jewellery boxes and caskets, burl trays, tealight holders, incense burners, beaded bracelets and prayer beads. The grain differs from one piece to the next — none is exactly identical to its photograph.
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A rectangular flat-lidded box cut from a thuya burl. The centre is left smooth to show the speckled figure; groups of incised grooves frame the edges and cross at the corners, and the sides are channelled the same way. Two sizes. Hand-polished varnished wood: the pattern of the burl changes from one box to the next.
A secret box carved from a thuya burl: no visible hinge or clasp, only panels and slats that slide. They have to be moved in the right order to release the lid and reveal the compartment inside. The top and edges are cut from a densely figured burl, the sides from straight-grained pale wood. Hand-polished waxed wood: the figuring differs from one box to the next.
A hair barrette carved from a thuya burl, curved to sit against the nape and pierced with two slots for the stick. The turned, tapered stick holds the hair once it is slid through. Hand-polished waxed wood: the brown and honey flames vary from one barrette to the next.
A box turned from a thuya burl, swelling into a pebble shape and polished to a shine. A flowering branch runs right around the body, drawn in pale filet and set with dark red and green inlay: the figure of the wood passes under the pattern without a break. The flat lid, ringed with the same decoration, lifts by a turned knob. A decorative piece to display.
An apple turned from a thuya burl, set on the table to hold toothpicks. Lift it by the stalk — a piece of rough burl, left coarse against the polished fruit — and the top comes away: the toothpicks stand waiting in a hollow cut into the solid wood. The rings and flames of the grain draw the cheek of the apple — no two are alike.
A chessboard that doubles as the lid of a wooden case: squares of dark figured thuya alternate with pale wood, inside a moulded, rounded-edge frame. A drawer slides out of the side of the base and holds the complete set, turned light and dark pieces included. Game over, everything goes back in and the case becomes an object to display. Hand-polished varnished wood: the grain and shades differ from one piece to the next.
Rectangular box cut from thuya burl, the knotted part of the trunk with its speckling of small dark eyes. Close-fitting lift-off lid, no hinge, high-polish finish that brings out the contrast between pale veins and knots. Available in two sizes; the figure of the wood differs on every piece.
Aperitif server with four compartments that pivot out from under the lid, open into a cross and then close again to put everything away. The square lid carries a pierced floral panel, hand-carved and framed by an ebony inlay line. For olives, almonds or dried fruit, served dry.
Rectangular box whose every face, sides included, is carved into a chequerboard of small raised squares. The grid catches the light and makes the piece pleasant to hold. Thuya wood with speckled figure, polished finish. Available in two sizes.
A chessboard that folds into a case: open, it lays out squares of dark thuya burl and pale wood; closed, it forms a rectangular box held by a shell-shaped chased brass clasp. The sides are plain thuya framed in burl, the lid set on hinges. The turned light and dark pieces stow inside and travel with the board. Hand-polished varnished wood: the figuring differs from one piece to the next.
Rectangular casket in thuya burl with a richly inlaid lid: a black ebony frame, striped friezes alternating pale wood and ebony, and at the centre a floral design in blond citronwood. Two ebony lozenges set with mother-of-pearl complete the motif. The body, in plain burl, leaves the lid all the room.
Octagonal box in thuya burl, the lid ringed by a wide bevel of black ebony. At its centre, a rosette of arabesques in pale threading strewn with mother-of-pearl insets and their shifting sheen. The alternation of the burl's warm brown and the deep black of the ebony makes the character of the piece. Lift-off lid, thuya interior.
