5mm launches collection of top-heavy tables
Polish design studio 5mm has created a collection of tables with heavy solid-oak tops balanced on slim powder-coated steel bases (+ slideshow).
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The collection comprises a coffee table and two dining tables. Each features a heavy oak tabletop. The side table sits on top of a four-sided cube, while one dining table has slender trestle-style legs and the other has slim legs with an X-shaped profile.
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In choosing these shapes, the designers were looking for simple geometric forms that would provide the required stability without determining a specific seating scheme around the table.
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"The thin, steel legs give a clear, simple geometrical form and ensure lightness and elegance," said architects Kuba Kowalczyk and Mateusz Wełmiński, who founded their Krakow-based design studio in 2012. "This synthesis with the solid tabletop gives an exclusive, modern look."
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The tabletops are made from wooden boards glued together edge to edge and treated with three layers of natural hard-wax oil, giving the surface a natural matte finish.
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"Each of our products is unique," Kowalczyk told Dezeen. "The tabletops have some discolourations and wood grains, but we have not attempted to cover it up. This is a fully natural product."
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The bases are made from thin-walled powder-coated steel. To give them enough strength to support the large oak tops, the sections are welded together into shapes that will carry the loads efficiently.
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"We want our furniture to have an element of timeless modernity, so it can be used for decades – that's why we used materials like solid wood and steel," said the designers.