Objects—Tables
The Petra Side Table
$850
No two Petra tables carry the same geological record. That is not a variable — it is the material's authorship. Three cuts: Roman, Shell, Classic. Specify on order.
Travertine quarried, cut, honed — but not entirely. The voids remain. The fossil trace remains. Petra does not aspire to greater refinement than its material allows. This restraint — the refusal to disguise what the stone is — is the source of its authority in a space.
Why It's Here
Most side tables serve the chair beside them. Petra serves the room. The circle against the room's angles changes the space before you set anything on it — which is why it belongs here, and why travertine was the only material that could do it.
Cut
4–6 weeks lead time
Materials
- —Honed Travertine
- —Blackened Steel Base
Why this piece works.
The voids are not imperfections.
Travertine's fossil record is its authorship. Filling those holes would be a dishonesty. The stone is shown precisely as the stone is.
Round against the room's angles.
Most rooms are built from right angles. The Petra disc introduces a softness everything else can answer to. One curve changes the temperature of a space.
The base disappears.
Blackened steel reads as shadow at ground level. The stone appears to float — and that slight weightlessness is exactly what the room needs from it.