Coalesse, 415 Table Collection
Strategy, Design, & Development
I designed and led development of this highly customizable table collection. With casual legs and sophisticated material options, this table system can blend across conference, standing, and ancillary office applications.
The changing office landscape
The past 10 years have seen a radical change in how and where people choose to work. Mobile technologies have provided the freedom to work from home, the office, or anywhere in-between. As these shifts occur, so do the qualities of these environments and experiences.
Early Concepts
Working with an extensive amount of primary and secondary research insights, the design challenge was to focus on a table system that could easily adapt to ancillary spaces, while still addressing all the requirements in the conference room, and within the broader office landscape.
Waterfall
The open plan environment allows the entire floor plate to be the designer’s single canvas. Adjacencies allow for material, color, and visual connections not possible before. The waterfall concept provides a platform to host industry standard material thicknesses (i.e. countertops), allowing materials to coordinate between various settings while providing clean, un-interrupted work surfaces.
Branch
Inspired by traditional wood craft, canted legs, and 3D printing/knitting; this table concept incorporates a familiar cylindrical leg combined with optional elements that can become a platform for hosting materials, USB power, structural elements, a bag hook, or more…
415 Table
The 415 Table concept emerged from the combination of several core principles; a casual leg/stance, flexibility to support a wide range of size and style options, and seamless technology integration.
Picnic to perch
From seated to standing heights, tabletop shapes including rounds, squares, rectangles, and boats, in both narrow and wide widths, the 415 Table collection can adjust to any given architecture or floor plan.
Limitless applications
As the way we work continuously changes; from office, to home, to 3rd places, the furniture we use needs to adapt as well. With tabletop options ranging from laminate, veneer, corian, glass, stone, and hardwood, the 415 Table collection can adapt to the visual and tactile needs of any environment.
Leg details
The 415 leg is offered in both aluminum, powder coated or polished, and solid oak, natural or stained. The bottom of each leg presents a rotating ring detail, which helps level the table on uneven surfaces and adds visually pop when specified in chrome, black chrome, or copper finishes.
Hidden technology
Most technology enabled furniture screams, “technology”, and usually in an ugly way. I believe technology should present itself when needed, and disappear when not.
Working closely with a large engineering team, we developed several (now patented) methods for hiding the paths of technology, from tabletop to floor. Inside the metal leg, a nearly invisible channel exists to host and route any power/video/data needs.
