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Rafael Triboli’s new collection synthesizes the foundational aspects of his practice, bringing together techniques and resources that have long inhabited his repertoire, but now achieve an organic communication with the naturalness that constant engagement with the material brings.

One of these aspects is material frankness, where each piece appears without concealing what it is made of, as if the work serves to validate the material in its elementary state. Mahogany, cedar, imbuia, brass, bronze, and wax, and then the finishes, which here serve to emphasize what is already inherent in the wood itself. In the case of the sconces, paint applications conceal the surface to the extent that they draw the eye to what is left raw

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