While carpenters would never use steel together with oak, Steven Banken creates a blue wonder from both.

While carpenters would never use steel together with oak, Steven Banken creates a blue wonder from both.

Chemical color change
If you use steel nails in oak wood, you can expect the wood to turn dark blue around the penetrated metal. This effect is caused by the tannic acid in the wood chemically reacting with iron oxide. Steven Banken, a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, was inspired by the material and process to create an experimental series. By dripping liquid tannic acid onto a rotating iron plate, he develops a pattern on the metal reminiscent of the annual rings of a sliced tree trunk. The dark blue color, on the other hand, acts like a decorative glaze.

When Steven Banken then incorporates the plates into a wooden tray table, he makes the irritation complete: the metal narratively becomes a logical part of the design, even though the two materials are less compatible, at least chemically, than they appear. tp

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