Holds meaningful mementos and precious objects. Softly shaped to hold treasured personal items—wishes and moments kept. More than a decor piece, it is a pause. A presence. A poem in form.
Diameter: 13.5cm Height - 16cm
Material: Sphere handle - Rosewood / Stained, Lid - Ancient Swamp Kauri (NZ Native timber, 50,000 years old), Base vessel- Kauri (NZ Native, Reclaimed) / Torched Polka Dot Pattern
Not recommended for use in strong sunlight as this may cause discolouration and dries the wood. Pure linseed oil, walnut oil, pure tung oil, or beeswax can be used for rejuvenating the wood.
ABOUT the MAKER
Walk in the Park
Walk in the Park is the studio practice of Woo-Lam (Sam) Choi, an Auckland-based artist and designer trained in woodworking and furniture design at Hong-ik University in Seoul. Sam came to wood-turning in 2016, and his practice has since developed into something quietly singular — each object hand-turned in his studio from timbers chosen for their grain, provenance, and the way they respond to the lathe. The work sits at the meeting point of form and function, but never uncomfortably. Bowls, vessels, salt pigs, and pepper mills — each piece carries the logic of its making in its surface. The fluted cylinder, the turned sphere, the contrast of two woods held together: these are not decorative choices but considered ones, arrived at through material and process. Sam works with timbers that have their own stories — among them swamp kauri, recovered from the peat bogs of Northland after tens of thousands of years, and French oak, walnut, and ash, each chosen for what they bring in colour, grain, and character. No two pieces are identical. Natural marks and variations are understood as part of the work, not incidental to it. Tessuti carries a selection of Walk in the Park pieces — objects that earn their place on a table or bench and improve, quietly, with daily use.
