Alexis was keen to work with scorching, a process he’d been experimenting with recently. For his Discovered piece, he elected to do one piece in American cherry due to its inherent warmth, while the other one was made from red oak and burned. ‘Initially Sizar wanted to burn everything but we convinced him that it would be a pity to burn the cherry because the texture of the wood is not that strong that you’d see a big effect. It would have become just a black object,’ says Wewood’s design director Philipp Grundhoefer ‘The red oak has much more texture and you get more of a visual effect on the piece.’