This project celebrates the unusual character of Monkey Puzzle, a wood that reveals swirling patterns and round inclusions as the tools cut into it. Each pass of the lathe uncovers new details, with ...

This monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucaria) is one of the stranger trees growing in the Smithsonian’s Enid A. Haupt Garden in Washington, D.C. Its triangular leaves, which cover the entire tree, ...