Endless possibilities to decorate your living room

Posted on 11 March, 20228 November, 2024 by ekitreku

Endless possibilities to
decorate your living room

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Lauki composition with elliptic legs lacquered in Camel.

The low furniture serving as a support for TV, in front of which we sit on the sofa, can also be used to hold books and magazines, as well as different decorative objects, such as flowers, frames, lamps…

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Various Treku low furniture composition pictures. Each one is linked to its collection if you want to find out more.

Several of our collections cover this typology of product and allow, thanks to a wide range of lacquers and woods, almost infinite customisation possibilities. Dark or light, narrow or wide, sober or colourful, the end result of the combination will reflect your personality. Here are some examples of inspiring compositions…

Identity & Colours

Posted on 24 November, 20208 November, 2024 by ekitreku

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Identity & Colours

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Mito

Originally, the Basque word “urdin” described the colors blue, green and grey. “Urdin” means “like water”, and from there this refers to the different tones that can be reflected in a transparent liquid: “urdin” was the color of grey locks of hair but also of the raging sea in winter or a lake between summer pastures. All colors have a meaning and this meaning depends on the context. A red can be erotic or in inappropiate. Yellow, oppressive or therapeutic. Green, poisonous or hypnotic. There are as many colors as there are there are gazes.

A new chromatic universe

Colors, they say, are an illusion created to understand reality. Like illusions, colors are profoundly subjective. Each color enjoys a meaning according to the eyes, the culture or the sensibility of the person who sees it. Two people never see the same violet, nor the same green, let alone coincide when referring to the same tone of black.

Nevertheless, exists chromatic harmony. The chromatic harmony is the equilibrium that one obtains when the right colors are combined. It is consonance, it is calm, it is a piano perfectly in tune.

During this last year at Treku, we have studied a pallet of colors. On one side, we want to amplify the chromatic variations of out furniture and offer our clients a wider array of possibilities. On the other, we need for the new pallet to be profoundly coherent, like a family tree in that all parts have a blood as well as sentimental relationship. We want total harmony.

Fruit of this year’s work and reflection is the organization of the colors that we present here: five ranges – blues, greens, reds, yellows and neutrals – each one of which steps down through three nuanced levels of saturation. To find the adequate colors we simply had to look around at our surroundings, our sea, our forest, our leaf piles, our beaches and cliffs.

Also, at our skies: in the Basque Country it rains more than half the days of the year. The clouds are a habitual presence on our horizon and help inundate out landscape with a very special light, subtly shaded, without barely stridency, with smooth contrasts and delicate saturations. Our new color palette is an expression of all of that and the necessity to create spaces with soul through our furniture.

Conversations around a table

Posted on 13 November, 20188 November, 2024 by Ana

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Conversations around
a table

PHOTO:

(Right)Ibon Arrizabalaga and Silvia Ceñal
on a wooden table belonging to
our Aise collection.

Monday morning. The rst autumn frost. We are sitting around a table in the Treku o ces in an eminently rural setting just three kilometres from the Cantabrian Sea.
The table in question is a Treku Aise, with metal legs. The encounter is somewhat paradoxical because at one end of the Aise is Ibon Arrizabalaga, the designer who came up with the idea and then turned it into a reality, and at the other end is Silvia Ceñal, also a designer and the creator of another table for the Zarautz rm, called Basoa. We are obviously here to talk to them about tables, these pieces of furniture that are born from the union of a at top and legs. So simple, yet so complex.

The philosopher Gustavo Bueno once wrote that tables are ‘ oors for hands’, a space created to enable our upper extremities to express themselves, or to simply rest. Tables are a canvas on which to live our creative life, and our everyday life. Tables are also a startlingly simple design that even a child would be able to create. And yet, every year, new designs are born with new nuances. Silvia’s Basoa table was created in a burst of inspiration. ‘You pick up a piece of paper, a pencil, and you start with a line; then you add another…’ No pressure, no impulse to ll a gap in the market, no speci c destination in mind. Created for the mere pleasure of it. Later on, a prototype was produced for her exhibition and it was this that seduced Treku and convinced the brand to include the table in its collection.

PHOTOS:

(Top) Detail of the Aise table with
solid oak countertop

(Right) Wooden table belonging
to our Aise collection

The inspiration for the name Basoa (which means forest in Basque) came from the large pine trees that cover the sand dunes in Landes, in the south of France. ‘I like working on pieces with a lot of detail. In the case of Basoa, these details can be found in the crosspieces and the way in which they join together.’ The Aise table, on the other hand, was created in an almost diametrically opposed fashion. Ibon Arrizabalaga is a Treku designer who is extremely familiar with the rm’s pro- duction processes and is well aware of the direction in which designs should be heading.

Initially, Aise was conceived as an o ce desk with a Treku touch: visually light and eminently contemporary, with metal legs to guarantee stability. It was created to order, a design rooted in a speci c set of requirements. But it proved hugely successful. And not only as a piece of o ce furniture. Orders soon came in requesting it for the home environment also. ‘We evolved the design towards a warmer, more homely look, replacing the metal legs with solid wooden ones.’ Basoa, born free, and Aise, a made-to-order design which then chan- ged course, exist side by side in Treku’s new collection. They are not just any old tables, simple yet complex, they are the future oor for thousands of hands.