There is a breath of infinite time in Kauri timber, the largest and most famous New Zealand tree, a conifer that thrives only in sub-tropical climates.
The millennium Kauri is found only in the genuine swamp regions in the north of New Zealand.
Once a site has been identified, samples are taken for carbon dating 14. The dating of the various timbers, which ranges from 7 thousand to 50 thousand years, is determined by the diverse colour tones of the timber.
It is with this unique timb
er that has took place a refined and exclusive ideas for furnishing accessories of an unsurpassable quality. It is not simply by chance that all this is taking place under the auspices of Riva 1920 where timber has always been the driving force.
Give
n its extraordinary intrinsic characteristics, "ancient swamp KAURI wood" cannot be considered as if it were just any wood: thus any movement, cracks and changes in the wood compared with its condition at the moment of purchase should not be att
ributed to imperfections of the product, but rather to natural adjustment of the KAURI wood to its new environmental conditions.
An object made of KAURI wood is a byword for exclusivity, guaranteeing the customer a product which is both completely u
nique and unrepeatable.
