wild olive and glass display table

By Gys Potgieter

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Designer

Gys Potgieter

Woodcrafters

Gys Potgieter and Darren Myburgh

Tree

African Olive

Common name

Wild Olive Tree

Wild olive and glass display table

This beautiful olive wood display table brings live-edged curves and shapes to your entrance room. The original olive wood slab has been patiently preserved, polished and shaped to create this impressive sculptured table stand. The unique grain and knots add to the distinct character of the table – truly a one-of-a-kind piece! To add a modern counterpoint, the glass top is suspended on stainless steel pins.

DESIGNERS

Gys Potgieter: Gys Potgieter is the visionary and owner of Kuni, a master of his craft and doing what he loves – crafting wood by hand. He favours indigenous wooden slabs and his designs flow with the shape, grain and nature of the slab. For Gys, the perfectly crafted furniture piece is as functional as it is beautiful. It is not about the extent or number of items produced, but about the passion and pride of producing a single, unique, handcrafted work of art, a natural object of lasting beauty.

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THE WILD OLIVE TREE

THE TREE

Family: Oleaceae | Synonym: Olea Africana Mill

The wild olive is an evergreen flower- and fruit-bearing tree that grows up to 14m tall, with a knotty and contorted stem, covered with grey-green foliage.

WHERE ARE THEY FOUND?

It grows mostly on woodlands, stream banks and hilly slopes and can be found in Africa, the Mascarene Islands, Arabia, India and China.

WOOD PROPERTIES

The wood is very hard, heavy and has a pleasant oily odour. Wild olive is used for flooring, small furniture pieces, boxes and toys, and has been used for sleepers, fence posts, sports equipment, machine bearings and pattern-making in the past.

INTERESTING FACTS

The olive leave can be used as an ingredient for eye lotion and gargling liquid for sore throats. Some people use the water-soaked leaves as a substitute for tea.