Jimbo Suar Wood No Lip Bowl

The Jimbo Suar Wood No Lip Bowl is carved from a single block of suar wood and finished in charred semi-matte black, at roughly 50 x 50 x 20cm. Made in Indonesia, it is sized for a coffee table, a console or a wide shelf. Because each one follows the block it came from, no two are quite alike.

A bowl this size is not really for holding things, or not for holding much. It is an object with a curve and a shadow, and it does its best work sitting empty on a low table where you can take in the whole of it.

Charring darkens the timber without burying the grain, so it stays legibly wooden rather than turning into a flat black shape. Suar is dense and you feel that the moment you pick it up. Treat the measurements as close rather than exact, since size and shape shift a little from piece to piece.