UC102
Teak "narcotrunks" from customs police auction
140x90x30 cm
Year built
2024
Function
Mirror
Status
Available
The teak arrived through an unusual channel — logs seized during a drug trafficking operation by the customs police, and subsequently auctioned off as confiscated assets. Narco-cars, narco-boats, narco-trunks.
For most workshops, raw logs are an inconvenience — not a standard working format, not directly usable in conventional carpentry. For AMBER, a batch of dry, massive teak trunks is a luxury. The wood itself is extraordinary: expensive, dense, with beautiful grain, and almost never worked in raw form in Spain — it arrives here as finished furniture, not as material.
AMBER first used this batch for UC27, where they discovered something unexpected: the grain was beautiful but the natural colour didn't convince. They burned it.
The result was perfect — deep, dark, unambiguous. That became the signature of what followed: UC33, UC38, UC42, and others. A series that acquired its own name. UMBRA.
UC102 is the last mirror made in that spirit. The structure is four massive teak trunks forming a rectangular frame — square on the outside, emphatically so. But the sculptural work grows inward: the carved surfaces push toward the centre, toward the mirror itself, which follows the same irregular form. The rectangle contains the sculpture. The sculpture consumes the rectangle from within.
A negative space that reflects everything in front of it.
