Gifting Trees window for Bottega Veneta
Gifting Trees window for Bottega Veneta
- Client: Bottega Veneta
- Category: Windows & Facades
- Location: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Year: 2024
This production transforms real branches into sculptural brass trees through traditional lost-wax casting, preserving the natural textures of bamboo, olive, pine, beech, and holly or orange while balancing realism, craftsmanship and structural stability.
All the production has been created using the brass casting process. This begins with a master prototype, which we usually make in resin. Then a mold is created and the brass pieces are cast using a lost-wax technique (it is heated to melt the wax away). The piece is then coated in a ceramic shell and finally, molten brass is poured in.
There are five types of branches: bamboo, olive, pine, beech, and holly or orange, depending on the tree.
To create such realistic trees the master sculptures use real tree branches to create the shapes with wax instead of 3d printing. Construction of each tree has been challenging in order to find the stability with so many different branches and weights.
The result is a collection that captures the delicate complexity of nature in a permanent material. Each tree stands as a balance between organic beauty and technical precision, transforming fleeting natural forms into timeless sculptural objects.
