Willem van Hooff, 2025
PINEA SHELF
Collector work
DKK 37,500
Placed privately in conversation with the gallery.
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PINEA SHELF shows Willem van Hooff's bold, almost pictorial approach to form, here rendered in polished bronze that catches and returns the light of the room.
Lead time: 8-12 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Polished bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 324 x 181 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
The work
Cast and polished by hand, the piece pushes a functional object toward sculpture, its clean reflective surface setting off the frank, graphic profile van Hooff is known for. The polish makes the bronze read bright and immediate rather than dark and antique.
It is a shelf that behaves like a wall work, holding objects while asserting itself as one.
Materials & making
Cast bronze
Bronze holds detail that few materials can. Cast from the artist's original, each edition carries the same surface, weight and gravity, a physical record of the hand that made it, hardened into an alloy that will outlast everyone who touches it.
- Material
- Polished bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 324 x 181 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Signature
- Engraved
01
Mould and wax
The artist's original is captured in a flexible mould, from which a hollow wax replica is taken and refined by hand until every surface matches the source.
02
Lost-wax casting
The wax is encased in a ceramic shell and fired; the wax runs out and molten bronze is poured into the void it leaves, taking on the exact form of the original.
03
Chasing and assembly
The rough cast is released from its shell, sprues removed, and seams chased away by hand so the metal reads as a single continuous surface.
04
Patina and finish
The finished bronze is coloured with heat and chemistry, then sealed with a hand-applied patina unique to each edition.
Made at
Fonderia Artistica Mariani
Italy · Est. 1952
Founded in 1952, Fonderia Artistica Mariani is an Italian art foundry known for precision bronze casting. Each work is cast using the traditional lost-wax and vacuum-shell methods that capture the finest surface detail, then chased, finished and patinated by hand.
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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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Details
- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Title
- PINEA SHELF
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Polished bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 324 x 181 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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