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Teúkhō

(Ancient Greek word: to do, to create, to create artfully)

TIME IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING A MAN CAN SPEND

– Theophrastus

DESIGN AND FURNITURE IN FOSSIL WOOD

Teúkhō has its roots in the deep knowledge and love for wood, this extraordinary material that has always accompanied man in his history. And it is precisely from history, thousands of years old, that today we draw our design creations.

The essence of our designs derives from incredibly rare and unique fossil logs, not yet petrified, which date back to between 5000 to 6000 BC. These mineralized logs showcase distinctive characteristics of the wood; they assume a particular elasticity, coloring and texture that is impossible to reproduce artificially.

Variations in the water in the ground, floods, are all conditions that particularly favor the growth of this noble tree, especially near rivers. In its winding course, a river often erodes the banks covered with these forests, nearby trees fall into the river and are washed away into the water. When the trunk is trapped by its branches and roots in the river bed, over time it becomes covered with layers of sediment, sand and gravel. Thus deprived of oxygen, the wood begins the slow process of fossilization that lasts thousands of years. No more ordinary wood, not fossil stone yet, but an extremely hard and robust material that can still be worked by expert hands.

Today we know that all the beautiful things we buy inevitably have an environmental cost.

Teúkhō, on the other hand, is ECO-SUSTAINABLE in its DNA: we are proud to say that for our design items and furniture, no trees have ever been felled. 

Our woods have an age certification, tested with the Carbon-14 system, which allows us to place the essences in the different historical periods in which the tree lived. 

The charm of a material born in the mists of time is enhanced with modern design, technology, materials, and manufacturing techniques. The result is our collection of hand-crafted furniture and accessories, unique objects shaped by nature over thousands of years and interpreted in a contemporary key by teukhò. Get hold of a unique work, produced with a wood from a bygone era:

-Are you ready to start this journey with us?