Planche Table

Custom Furniture
Design + Construction: 1999 -2001

bending birch plywood
custom stainless steel connections
raw steel
glass
concrete

The concept for the table was created to express the structural integrity of materials. The acrobatic form developed from a position in gymnastics in which a gymnast maintains stability while on her hands with her feet arched 90 degrees over her head, challenging the limits of balance.

Raw steel and concrete compose the counterbalance weight of the base which embraces the torso element of laminated wood; these two contrasting figures work together to support a functional plane of glass. The refined details of the connections are highlighted with polished stainless steel.