{"product_id":"coenosteum","title":"Coenosteum","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoenosteum takes its name from the spongy, porous mineral skeleton that binds a coral colony into \u003cspan\u003eone mass, a single continuous form. Twelve legs hold the piece close to the ground, as an anchor, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebody that has settled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA form that undines, calm and sinuous, carries a hush, as though it came from the benthos, the zone \u003cspan\u003eof the sea floor where life clings low, fixed, and slow, where organisms accrete rather than move. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn its surface, layer upon layer of pigment gathers into small, cellular beads, pale rose and sage \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egreen ringed in darker mineral tone, close in structure to the nacre of an abalone or the ooids that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecement themselves, grain by grain, into sedimentary stone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe form resists the ordinary logic of a bench. There is no flat plane offered in the conventional \u003cspan\u003esense. Instead the piece traces a spine, a long, undulating ridge that narrows into thin hips before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edropping into its next arch. The finish is polished to a smooth, waxed gloss, it does not ask to be sat \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eupon so much as straddled, slid along, run a hand across.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath, a frame of reclaimed steel carries the weight, wrapped in a mineral composite and \u003cspan\u003efiberglass shell. Coenosteum remains a body first: mineral, encrusted, but strangely alive to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etouch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elissa Lacoste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60302020936014,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/6928\/9981\/files\/Coenosteum_Bench_WEB_5_70dd4f2c-d888-40e8-82ff-9890aa3058fe.jpg?v=1785847903","url":"https:\/\/objectswithnarratives.com\/products\/coenosteum","provider":"Objects With Narratives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}