Willem van Hooff, 2025
Pinea Shelf - Bronze Shelf by Willem van Hooff
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DKK 37,500
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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 + 3 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 and making
Cast bronze
Bronze holds detail that few materials can. Each bronze is cast from the same mould and hand-chased to retain the detail of the artist's original. Patina is applied individually, so tonal and surface variation should be expected across the edition.
- Material
- Polished bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 324 x 181 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + 3 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.
Visit Fonderia Artistica Mariani →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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Details
- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Title
- Pinea Shelf - Bronze Shelf by Willem van Hooff
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Polished bronze
- Dimensions
- 480 x 324 x 181 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + 3 Artist's Proofs (AP)
- Signature / marking
- Engraved
- Publisher
- Edition Solenne, Copenhagen
- Primary market release
- 2025
- Acquisition
- Acquired directly from Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed and numbered by the artist and publisher
- Returns
- Consumers in the EU may withdraw within 14 days of delivery, except where the work is produced to individual specification, as stated on the invoice. Contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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