2008
Crespon tree, stainless steel and glass top
Base: 29”h x 150”l x 43”w (73.6cm x 381cm x 109cm x 80cm) Glass: 165” x 43 1/4” (420cm x 110cm)
The Tree Table questions the historic paradigm of using wooden boards to create a table.
It proposes that no matter how beautiful or sophisticated our designs might be, the shapes we find in nature are often more mysterious and intriguing. In a simple act, Sebastian ErraZuriz lays a tree horizontally, laser-cuts its branches to height, and places a glass on top.
Humberto Campana of the Campana brothers, a noted Brazilian design duo, would later admit to ErraZuriz during a dinner conversation that this was one of those designs he envied and wished he had conceived.