The Tecka table from Les Jardins is not only a handsome and durable place to put your stuff, but also a smart appliance with an innovative solar module.

The inset feature on Tecka’s top is in fact a repository of solar energy, quietly absorbing the sun’s rays all day and then automatically illuminating come sundown: “with a warm and powerful light and adjustable intensity of up to 500 lumens for five to 200 hours.”

The slatted conical structure of the table base gives Tecka’s light an appealing diffuse quality, splitting the light into shafts and slants that spread out on the floor for soft, ambient illumination.

The Tecka table contains a back-up USB charging port and presence detector. 10 LEDs grace the table’s underside. It also has a smart sensing feature that knows the charge of the battery and tempers light intensity accordingly so it will last through the night. And the module is interchangeable and replaceable: it can be switched out as technology and efficiency advance.

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