Baton Coffee Table

Supplementing the practical functionality of everyday objects with distinctive form is the eternal challenge in design.

And it is precisely this balancing act that Neri&Hu has pulled off with the wardrobe stands and tables in the BATON series, which comes as a homage to the Viennese Secessionist design movement. The coffee table is endowed with the same feature – a tray-like tabletop with raised lip – to keep smaller items securely where they were placed. Next to a sofa, desk or bed, as well as in a closet space, it makes itself useful holding reading glasses, jewellery, electronic devices, a cup of tea or other things. In each case the base is a solid pedestal hewn from the highest-quality marble, from which slender powder-coated aluminium supports issue. On the tables, these rods – or batons to adopt the French nomenclature – are wrapped in leather throughout with the highest degree of precision.