Visual artist Pia Maria Raeder is committed to interpreting her own abstract vision of nature. Beechwood is at the core of her experimentations on shapes. Each the fruit of hundreds of working hours, her sculptures, reminiscent of biomorphic forms, have an emotional communicative presence. The breath of life seems to animate these organic creations, like the echo of a nature that is not imitated but is rather harnessed and experienced. Pia Maria Raeder personally designs and handcrafts each work herself in her workshop in Munich from thousands and thousands of simple beechwood elements, wooden rods or pearls that she patiently arranges one by one on a hand-carved body. Emancipated from its limits, the wood hence transformed into undulating living forms is offered a newfound freedom. A lacquer or a metallization process, customized for these works, then fully reveals the aesthetic and sensible dimension of her creations. Pia Maria Raeder has become globally known for her ‘SEA ANEMONES’ series that reflects the beauty found on the ocean floor. Launched in 2016, the collection now includes twenty pieces, encompassing many typologies in which function and poetry fuse: side and coffee tables, mirrors, chairs, chandeliers, floor lamps, and table lamps, vases. More than 400 hours of work and 29,000 beechwood rods are necessary to produce the ‘Sea Anemones Family’ set, made of three side tables completed by two sculptures. In 2019 Pia Maria Raeder pursues her exploration of nature with the ‘STARDUST’ series the first pieces of which will be presented at The Salon Art+Design in New York next November. “Just like everyone I am fascinated by the scene of a starry sky. We all instinctively feel the magnetic attraction of these suns’ final splendors, as far as they may be. Living organisms are all made of this stardust that has crossed the universe for billions of years. With ‘STARDUST’, I want to give my own interpretation of this natural phenomenon.”