Dark Solid Wood: Black Walnut and Smoked Oak

A contemporary treatment of dark solid wood. The wood is black walnut or fumed oak, with a deep brown-purple or deep gray-brown color, not the reddish-brown of traditional Chinese style; the grain is straight and fine, carefully selected to avoid overly flamboyant mountain patterns. The surface is treated only with matte wood wax oil, presenting an extremely soft semi-gloss that hardly reflects light, allowing the texture of the wood grain to be seen. It is used on full-height walls, console tables, grilles, and furniture, occupying about thirty percent of the space. Because of its deep color and matte texture, these wooden elements provide visual weight and stability, creating clear layers with lighter stone and paint. Avoid: using reddish-brown traditional Chinese staining, using high-gloss lacquer finishes, choosing flamboyant mountain grain patterns, making the area of wood exceed that of stone and paint.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組深色實木的當代處理。木材是黑胡桃或經過燻蒸的橡木,顏色是深褐帶紫或深灰褐,不是傳統中式的紅褐;紋理是直而細密的,經過挑選避開過於張揚的山紋。表面只上霧面的木蠟油,呈現極為柔和的半光,幾乎不反射,可以看見木紋的高低。它被用在通高的牆面、案桌、格柵與家具上,佔空間的三成左右。因為顏色深、質地啞,這些木作提供了視覺的重量與穩定,與淺色的石材和塗料形成明確的層次。避免:使用紅褐色的傳統中式染色、使用高光的漆面、選擇紋理張揚的山紋、把木作的面積做到超過石材與塗料。