VITRA Compas Table - Mod Livin'

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. Utilizing his innovative method of folding metal, Prouvé designed a series of tables that have the perceived lightness of bridges and the presence of architecture. Prouvé developed a base frame reminiscent of a set of compasses, or in French "le compas". It took the vocabulary of Prouvé's structures and went into production, a characteristic of all the objects created by the pioneering engineer. Materials: legs in profiled sheet steel with angled legs, connected to a tubular central crossbar, tabletop and edging in laminate. Tabletop cream-coloured, edges black.