This piece is made from very special sections of London Plane - a patchwork of timber off-cuts. Very densely burred and spalted, with an almost purple colouration, this timber is very rare and collected from a local timber yard that process London trees which are rescued from the chipper. These sections came from a huge stump, from a tree felled in South London. Its tight grain polishes to a very smooth, marble like finish and the piece has brass bowtie joinery, which gently gleams in the light.