The designer is Xavier Lust, the manufacturer is Tacchini, the material is sheet metal, and the product is the slightly space age yet smart and versatile V-Table. About this occasional table with the spherical top and angular base, Lust modestly says, “Collection of tables for many use: table (H=73 cm) or side table (H=63 cm). Lacquered steel and aluminum.” In fact, Lust’s palette here consists largely of machined sheet metal, which the Belgian designer folds just so into a tri-partite structure that renders it right for large scale production and distribution.

V-Table. Designed by Xavier Lust for Tachhini.

Superior Stability in an Ultralight Design

Besides the intrinsic appeal of the tri-pod concept (all good things come in threes, as all architects and engineers intuitively know), the V-Table’s design renders it quite strong for a relatively diminutive piece. Though rarely a requisite among tables of like proportions, it’s nice to know that—should V become an intentional or inadvertent repository for books, bulky electronics, over-sized Christmas birds, or even just the posterior of a too-casual houseguest—it will easily withstand such universal pressures.

Manufacturer Tacchini professes a simple vision: “to deliver desirable and functional furniture to both the home and public spaces… what’s vital is the combination of creativity and logic, a sensibility to nature and new design trends.” The company’s impressive roster of collaborating designers virtually assures fulfillment of said objective, especially in regard to that crucial balance between creativity and logic. Lust—whose aesthetic is “clearly identifiable through the visible tension he gives to his objects, and the curves inspired by his innovative (de)formation process of metallic surfaces”—shares this task admirably along with luminaries like Lievore Altherr Molina and Claesson Koivisto Rune. Tacchini is rightly proud to count the V-Table among its flagship products.