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Low table
Not on view
The Low Table’s extreme minimalist structure clad in book-matched burl wood is typical of Jean Michel Frank’s expensive and luxurious veneers, which often include parchment, shark skin, mica, or straw. Like Sottsass’s Tartar table, Frank’s emphasizes the surface, or the skin, as the sensual invitation to interact with the furniture. Here, Sottsass inverts Frank’s formula with a complex structural composition faced in low-cost and banal but artfully patterned and colored plastic laminate and plywood.
