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In the forests of southern Africa grows a wood far harder than oak, slow and dense. It is never planted and never felled. The trees stand untouched for generations, and when one finally comes down, it is the elephants that bring it to the ground. The wood is left where it falls, given up by the forest on its own terms. Only two houses are permitted to recover it, and one of them, now in its fourth generation, brings it out of the bush. Deep and warm in tone, the teak is given to our Opus pattern, where the joins disappear into one continuous surface. Each floor is made from a single season of fallen trees, and then no more.