Lamé
Computer-aided stone carving meets traditional cutting techniques in this series of nesting, occasional, and dining tables, which are named for the nineteenth-century mathematician Gabriel Lamé, a pioneer of theories of curvilinear coordinates. Precise engineering permits these quartzite stone slabs to fit together without fasteners while maintaining disarmingly natural—maybe even body-like—shapes. Like the lines of a drawing, like the organicism of a creature, like the strangeness of a render, like the control of a machine: Lamé’s structure reveals itself from each angle differently, a series of subtle shifts. The eye moves all over without settling in any one spot, mystified by the solidity as much as by the lightness of these parts that, puzzle-like, become whole.
