VITRA Gueridon Table

Prouvé's influences are still very much alive today. His production facility in Maxeville, France allowed him the unique opportunity of combining industrial aesthetics with technical know-how. In his furniture designs, Prouvé combines his technical know-how and the opportunities offered by his production facility with it's unique industrial aesthetics. In the early 1940s he turned his attention increasingly to wood as a material. He designed the Guéridon Table, with its particularly impressive structural clarity, for the University of Paris. This wooden table proves that modern tables do not have to be made of steel and glass and offers a variation on Prouvé's standard formal language, with its architectural overtones, by using a natural material. Material: Legs solid oak, black tubular steel connection, table top oak veneer or hard surface (HPL) with oak veneer edge, natural wood look lacquer.