Making This Chair out of Brazilian Hardwood and sort of Shou Sugi Ban Technique

This is the Queimada Chair and it was inspired by the Amazon Rainforest fires that happened this year and that lasted for weeks.

The idea was to make a monolithic wooden chair representing the huge unmovable trees from the rainforest that simply disappear once struck by the fire leaving vast areas of the forest completely plane

Although I had this clear idea I actually had no idea on how to execute it.
I tried three different ways to make this chair, failing on the first two and ending up with an interesting finishing mixing the ashes with glue making a kind of ash wood putty! On the backrest I used some sort of Shou Sugi Ban technique burning the hardwood with a torch to get that crackled look on the wood.

For this project I used Jequitiba hardwood for the backrest and legs, as well as for the wood laminate.

The word Queimada in Portuguese can be translated as burnt, but the same word also means Forest Fire.

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