We cast clear acrylic in a wooden form with a strong grain and assembled the resulting piecesto create a table made of ‘transparent wood’. We reproduced the butt ends faithfully and bevelled the edges like floorboards, and matched the grains ends and dimensions of the wood used for the table legs to the ‘transparent wood’ to create a unified piece. 

 

The two tables have specific and different optical effects: at first glance the black tableis wood, but a closer look reveals its transparency, while the clear table is the transparent at first glance, and only later reveals its wooden form.