This project involved creating a side or accent table based off the design language of an existing furniture company. The selected company was Norm Architects, an architecture and design studio based in Copenhagen that often works in a Scandinavian Modernist design style with elements of Japanese design.

The guiding word for this table was "contrast;" there is contrast in the wood's colours, weight, and forms. The use of two starkly distinct stains helps enhance the difference in weight between the three main forms of the table: the monolithic "plinth", the thin tabletop, and the table legs.

Being an architecture company as well, I wanted to bring some of that into this table, hence the varying depths and intersection of forms, articulating them the same way a modernist building might.

A tiny detail included on both the plinth and the tabletop is the inclusion of small splines that contrasts the surrounding wood. While these serve a functional purpose in strengthening the mitre joints, they also act as a graphical element that keeps the eye circulating.