Perhaps you can blame the Renaissance and the quest for complete perfection - the natural world still tends to get portrayed in a controlled way. Branches simplified into repetitive patterns, majestic trees trimmed into squared beams, and flowers flattened into graphic motifs. Complexity, randomness and rawness is tamed, and connections are lost with nature and our surroundings.

But Bo Reudler Studio have been thinking differently for their new 'Slow White' collection. And we like the results.

Bo Reudler Studio is a product and interior design studio, led by designer Bo Reudler and based in The Netherlands. For Slow White, Bo left the left computer behind and ventured into the woods...

"I gathered fallen wood to transform into furniture. I started building again with my own hands, knowing everything that went into the process, working consciously, smelling the wood, feeling the structure, composing. The branches were carefully selected for their distinguishing imperfections and curves.

Following these shapes led me to the designs: the individual branches were numbered and the pieces are composed using the most beautiful combination of branches. These forms give personality to each piece which will always be different due to the randomness of each branch."

All the products are hand made, and the range consists of a chair (The idea to make a classical-inspired chair out of curved branches began the idea for the whole collection) a cabinet, a table, a crooked free-standing lamp with a translucent shade and a spindly-legged mirror - all looking like they popped straight out of a Tim Burton movie...

Photography credits:

Product images: Ilco Kemmere

Night series: Bo Reudler Studio