Visit Rimadesio at the brand’s flagship store in Milan up to the end of the fair on April 13 to get a sneak peak at the lovely Lambda table, a sculptural tour de force in monolithic material.

Taking its name from the Greek letter, Lambda also borrows that Cyrillic symbol’s form, which is similar to our capital “A”. The shape is is sketched into the air, as the central space beneath the top, and into the table’s very structure—as the subtly sloping indentations on the outside of the two legs.

Thin as Occam’s razor, yet stable as a truss, Lambda belies its intimation of fragility to arrive at the proverbial best of both worlds: unparalleled elegance and superhuman strength—as if Achilles and Helena of Troy found some spare time to make a table.

Rimadesio likens the base element to folded sheets of paper. I could never do it, but I have witnessed certain prodigies manipulate flat sheets just so, turning precision creases into aerodynamic diagonals that rip across the air. Lambda definitely has this aspect of fledgling flight. The ultra-thin elliptoid that counts for the top doesn’t dispel the notion: Lambda may be mistaken for a hybrid of jet fighter and U.F.O.

Available in marble, wood, or Rimadesio’s Terrae brushed composite, Lambda’s base is lacquered and layered atop an internal steel ballast, medium density wood fiber core, and double aluminum plates—all of which help to maintain the delightful illusion of a monolithic structure, revealed in its permanence as from a sculptor’s sharpest chisel.

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