jorge de la cruz: between centers

‘between centers’ by jorge de la cruz

spanish designer jorge de la cruz presents a series of wooden furniture developed from its production system: wood turning between centers. the collection includes a stool, a banquette and a table; available in maple wood and black-dyed birch wood. the task of wood turning consists of using a lathe to create doweled shapes.

this process produces ‘signs’ on the extreme of each piece created by the ‘drive centre’ and ‘dead centre’, which press the piece of wood to rotate it. woodworkers usually remove these signs. keeping those signs and using it as symbols, the designer generates a link to tell the life of the object inside the factory. these symbols are the evidence that these pieces are made, one by one, with a lathe.

black-dyed birch banquette

black-dyed birch stool

hard maple banquette

hard maple stool

stool top made of turned hard maple

banquettes placed together becoming a long bench

hard maple table, banquette and stool

table detail

lathe’s drive centre

lathe’s dead centre

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