Selection of Wood
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Black American Walnut
This essence comes from the American continent, from which was imported during the 20th century and cultivated also in Western and Eastern Europe. Its height can reach 30 meters, with an erected trunk and wrinkle bark. The name derives from the channels carrying chlorophyll. The chocolatecoloured veneer, sometime characterized by purple streaks, makes this essence elegant and with strong character, with connotations of natural tightness and elasticity.
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European Walnut
Wood of particular importance, the European Walnut is cultivated in Europe from a long time, but it comes now from mountainous regions of South and West Asia. The sapwood is whitish or slightly yellowish colour, while the heartwood may be brown or dark brown, sometimes tending toward grey. The contrast between sapwood and heartwood confers a high aesthetic appeal to this type of veneer and makes unique each piece.
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Cherry
Cherry is one of the most beautiful species, not of large size, excellent for veneers, for the furniture industry and interior decorators. The colouring is warm, orange-reddish colour, detail that increases the noble characteristics of this essence in the course of time. The processing does not create any difficulties and the polishing highlights particularly prized effects in the structure of this wood, whose areas of origin are Europe and Asia Minor.
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Oak
Oak, both veneer and solid wood, as essence is widespread and much used in the production of furniture. In addition to being a stable wood, it offers a very versatile texture to different finishes, structure, which is well suited for brushing processing. The heart is light brown, preferred for veneers, to brown-yellow becoming darker.
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Rosewood
Over the years, the Santos Rosewood has acquired a solid market position as extremely decorative wood for furniture. The quality is exalted through the colour ranging from red to brown with violet reflections. Being a wood quite hard and of fine weaving, it may stress cracks on the surface in the course of time, that confirm the completely natural provenance.
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Ebony Makassar
Ebony Makassar is a very valuable and highly decorative essence, tank to the black heartwood, which presents large streaks, regular and not, in reddish-brown colour tending to orange. Being a wood quite hard and of fine weaving, it may stress cracks on the surface in the course of time, that confirm the completely natural provenance.
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Zebrano wood
Zebrano wood is considered decorative, characterized by brown heartwood with irregular darker veins, which do compare it with the zebra mantle. African tropical wood, it can be easily polish and varnish and the veneer-compositions could create pleasant optical effects.
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Wengè wood
Wengè is considered to be a veneer prized wood for furnishings, with its characteristic double clear brown colouring, alternated to coffee-colour or black-purple striations, very well exalted in natural finish. Also this essence is considered rather hard, even though of quite easily processing.
ADDITIONAL WOODS ON REQUEST