Silhouette Console Table

The Silhouette Console is the piece I return to when people ask me what I truly believe furniture can be, not a functional object with decorative qualities, but a work of art that happens also to be a table. The base was developed over many months of drawing and cutting, each of the five interlocking panels built up from a composition of figurative and abstract silhouettes that overlap and interlock across the full width of the piece, creating a frieze of negative space and solid form that reads differently depending on where you stand and how the light falls across it, at times suggesting human figures, at others the carved tracery of a Gothic screen or the eroded face of an ancient relief. Cut from flat steel plate and finished in antique gold, a surface of extraordinary warmth and vintage depth that makes the piece feel simultaneously contemporary and centuries old, the base is mounted on a low plinth that grounds the composition and gives it the gravity of a monumental sculpture. The ebony granite top above is the one moment of absolute restraint, jet black, smooth and silent, allowing the golden drama beneath to speak without interruption.

All pieces from our Somerset studio, are handmade to order to your exact specifications and available in bespoke sizes with a choice of finishes and tops.