These book ends can hold up your most voluminous tomes with a mindfulness, very demure. The asymmetrical forcefullness of the steel inserts plays against the organic patterns of the spalted maple. Steel was salvaged from Manhattan water works project.
Spalted Maple gets its pattern from the natural decomposition process. Black lines, and kaleidoscope variations of color are a byproduct of a naturally occurring fungus. The decomposition process is halted by sterilization and then the wood is shaped and carved.
Spalted Maple, Foraged steel