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A stool

This stool by Zé Espiga was made from wood and iron using traditional barrel-making techniques, which means there are no screws to secure the piece. After a thermal process, the wood expands and the iron shrinks, tightening together the precisely cut pieces of wood.
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José Quintão
Bucelas, Portugal
The third generation of a barrel-making family, José Quintão says that his professional name is also inherited, as his father and grandfather were als ...
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