Wave Console captures the intersection of material innovation and historic technique in a sculptural form that reflects the energy of the sea.

The console's form is shaped by two plunging-wave composite skins, constructed from a flax and basalt fibre weave bonded in bio-resin. Acting in tension, the skins provide strength, stiffness and resistance to load, a structural logic drawn directly from the geometry of a breaking wave. The natural flax fibres carry the load; the resin binds them into form.

Over this composite core, more than 1,200 individual leather cordings are hand-applied in a continuous, striated pattern. Cut from vegetable-tanned coach-hide in Havana, papaya and mocha, each strip is laid fibrous edge upward so that as the cordings are spokeshaved to a smooth finish across the three-dimensional surface, every layer transforms into a unique shape. The technique draws on leather cording traditions that date to at least 3,500 BC. The uniform strips, ancient in origin and meticulous in application, resolve into a surface of remarkable depth and movement.

Flax/basalt composite weave, bio-resin, vegetable-tanned coach-hide leather, stainless steel, polished bronze.

H840 x L1826 x D734mm

Studio SL, Layers in Time, 2025