![Paying Tribute to the Tributary Table Paying Tribute to the Tributary Table](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Occasional-family.jpeg)
Paying Tribute to the Tributary Table
Based in Chicago, Refractory is a design studio and community of artisans invested in the unique qualities of the American vernacular, “producing and purveying rigorously crafted works in a language that is distinct within American and contemporary design landscapes.”
![Tributary Table amber glass](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Occasional-Glass-1024x681.jpeg)
Take the Tributary Occasional Table. This is a clever and artful piece that deftly negotiates the netherlands between art and design. “Liminal” is a good phrase for navigating this oft-confounded terrain. And speaking of water metaphors, Tributary earns the moniker via its variety of varied forms and surprising intersections: “it’s about headwaters and braided streams and also about the nature of tribute, the channeling of materials and processes into something contributory.”
![Tributary table with wood top](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Occasional-Wood-1024x685.jpeg)
The varied materials here include cast bronze, hand-polished kiln-cast glass, solid oak, and black walnut, all beginning at a single source, conjoining, diverging, and remaining distinct in a fluid and unpredictable way that recalls a branching body of water.
![Tributary table smoky glass](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Glass-amber-1024x680.jpeg)
Other items in the Tributary line include console, dining, side, and sofa tables, but we’ll reserve exploration of those for another time, once we can conjour up more metaphors….
![Tributary table glass three styles](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Occasional-family-1024x678.jpeg)
For further details, see Refractory.
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