Just like us, wood reacts to its environment—hot summers and humid winters make it expand and contract. Small cracks, also called wind cracks, are completely normal and often close up as humidity levels change. Want to make sure it’s just a wind crack? Take a €2 or $1 coin and hold the thin edge against the crack. Is the crack narrower than the coin? No worries! If you can easily slide the coin into the crack, or if the crack goes all the way through the wood, contact your dealer to find a solution. 

The high quality allows us to make wide tabletop segments out of one piece of wood. The color and characteristics of the wood are similar to teak. Our suppliers have their own concession and guarantee to deliver only the best quality Iroko hardwood, with a clear paper trail to guarantee sustainable entrepreneurship. 

Wood has to withstand UV rays, rain, fluctuating humidity levels, frost, extreme heat, and so on ... The specific sustainability process of Hellwood gives the fibres greater internal stability and increases its resistance to rotting. In this way, we obtain a type of wood that belongs in Durability Class I, just like the very best tropical wood. An attractive side-effect of the process, of course, is the wood’s dark coloring and flame-like pattern.