The Impossible Wave: a desk-sculpture born from flowers, wood, and a touch of madness.

Vision, passion, and design courage: these are the driving forces behind every great artisanal challenge. And this desk is the most tangible proof of that.

Born from the collaboration between our Bottega and designer Massimiliano Lanciano, this creation goes far beyond the simple category of furniture. It’s a declaration of method, of style, and—above all—of mindset.

To imagine such an object requires vision. To decide to build it... it takes a level of passion that borders on stubbornness.

The supporting structure is entirely made of curved plywood, crafted in multiple phases with engineering precision that leaves no room for improvisation. Every curve, every radius, every joint is the result of a long and complex process, built on experience, material study, manual intuition, and control over the mechanical forces at play.

The exterior cladding in ziricote, one of the rarest and most visually striking woods in the world, is worked here into narrow slats, following the curve of the piece with painstaking glueing—where the risk of error is always just around the corner.
The natural veining of the ziricote, with its bold chromatic contrasts, finds perfect counterpoint in the orange leather inserts—chosen with a deliberate and direct reference to nature: the color matches exactly the flower produced by the same ziricote tree.
A poetic detail that closes the circle between material and inspiration.

But no machine, no matter how sophisticated, and no design software could ever replace the hands, intuition, and craftsmanship accumulated through years of work.
Traditional tools, modern technologies, advanced woodworking knowledge… but above all, the human ability to imagine in the mind what does not yet exist: this is what it took.

The final result is a desk-sculpture, where aesthetics, technique, and creative madness coexist in a precarious yet perfectly balanced harmony.
A piece that escapes all conventional classifications, but powerfully tells what we’ve always believed:
without passion and vision, craftsmanship remains just a job. With passion and vision… it becomes art.