Willem van Hooff, 2025
EROSION TABLE
Collector work
DKK 45,000
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Willem van Hooff builds objects with a raw, graphic directness, forms that look drawn by hand and made by hand. EROSION TABLE brings that language into Botticino marble, a warm Italian stone carved into a body that looks worn and shaped by time.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
Insured, specialist art handling and worldwide delivery arranged at checkout.
Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Botticino Marble
- Dimensions
- 480 x 359 x 367 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
The title is the idea: the piece is made to look eroded, its edges softened as though weather and water had worked the stone rather than a chisel. Cut from solid blocks, the veining runs its own way through each example.
It sits between furniture and artefact, a usable table that carries the feeling of something dug up rather than manufactured.
Materials & making
Hand-carved marble
Marble is worked by removal; nothing is added back. Each block is unique, and the carver reads its veining and density before the first cut. What remains is stone that has been in the ground for millions of years, shaped over months into a single, unrepeatable object.
- Material
- Botticino Marble
- Dimensions
- 480 x 359 x 367 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
01
Selecting the block
Stone is chosen from the Apuan quarries above Pietrasanta, assessed for grain, colour and freedom from flaws before work begins.
02
Roughing out
The mass is reduced toward the form using point and tooth chisels, establishing proportion and volume from the solid block.
03
Carving the detail
Master carvers refine the surface with rasp, riffler and drill, translating the artist's intent into stone by hand.
04
Finishing
The surface is worked from coarse to fine (matte, honed or polished) according to the work, revealing the marble's depth.
Made at
Massimo Galleni
Pietrasanta, Italy · Est. 1995
Massimo Galleni's studio in Pietrasanta has carved marble by hand since 1995, working in the Versilia tradition at the foot of the Apuan Alps. His team of master carvers realises sculpture with chisel, rasp and drill for leading contemporary artists.
Visit Massimo Galleni →Lead time: 8-12 weeks
The artist
Willem van Hooff
1992, Netherlands · Design, Ceramics, Sculpture, Furniture
Willem van Hooff is a Dutch designer and artist who graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018 and subsequently established his own studio in the city. He describes himself as a modern craftsman, favouring primitive techniques, traditional machinery and raw or recycled materials — earthenware, salvaged wood and found objects — to create tactile, hand-made furniture and vessels.
His practice is driven by a belief that much modern production lacks soul, drawing on historical traditions, diverse cultures and the contrast between craft and contemporary society.
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- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Title
- EROSION TABLE
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Botticino Marble
- Dimensions
- 480 x 359 x 367 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature / marking
- Engraved
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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