UC164
200 year old beam encased in epoxy resin
130x100x40 cm
Year built
2026
Function
Lighting
Status
Available
Cádiz was one of the wealthiest cities in eighteenth-century Europe — the gateway port to the Americas, a place of extraordinary architectural ambition. The buildings that remain from that era carry their history in their bones, literally: in the massive structural beams that have held up ceilings for three centuries, absorbing the grime, the cracks, the layers of paint and plaster of every generation that lived beneath them.
From the beginning, those beams were what drove AMBER. Not just the material — the majestic, dense, ancient wood — but the stories we researched about the buildings they came from. Both were equally motivating. The goal was always to create sculptural objects that would last a lifetime and honour what the material had already lived through.
We had encapsulated raw beams before — in our surf boards UC94 and UC126. But this time we wanted to play with light, and with the idea of freezing the beam entirely: grime, cracks, layers of paint accumulated across generations, all suspended in resin — not fully transparent, but frosted, as if time itself had been interrupted.
A longitudinal opening carved along its length lets the dimmable LED light seep through, casting the kind of quiet, uncertain glow that makes you wonder what this beam witnessed before it became a beautiful object worth collecting.
