Pine personality

Almost everything designed by Swede Daniel Franzén is made out of pine. Ever since he left design school ten years ago he has developped his preference for this the most Swedish of woods (except for spruce, ok, ok): not only did he design the barn houses for Arvesund that I recently wrote about, but other houses, bars and furniture. He even made a “self portrait”-chair made out of pine details exactly as tall and skinny as himself.
"Pine tree is soft and easy to work with. It smells good and I also like the fact that it's knotty. That way you can actually see it's made out of trees", he says.
Recently Daniel designed a table top out of the kind of turned pine tree columns that usually hold up the roof of a porch. He just splitted them up lengthwise and let the round part face the floor. And had this "patterned" table as a result. It's still a prototype.