Stellar Console Table by Jake Phipps

The Stellar Console is a polished, structured, utilitarian mimesis of an opened amethyst geode. Nine hundred individually sized and angled mirror pieces sashay across the table diagonally, and each segment is meant to capture a different shade of light and color. The kaleidoscopic potential deserves its own Beatles song—Lucy has abandoned the sky for a stellar piece of furniture.

The inventor, Jake Phipps, has his own studio in London, where he designs pieces for large-scale production. He has diverse clientele, having designed for Google, Harvey Nichols and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others. He is famous for creating ISIS, the thinnest folding chair in the world (3 cm), which was manufactured in 2008 by Gebrüder Thonet – Vienna.

Phipps contrasts the crystalline mirrors with expansive, smooth surfaces. The non-uniform terrain of the table creates “an optical dispersion that breaks down the light and surrounding environment,” says Phipps, “delivering it to the eye as one sparkling identity.” The Stellar Console’s mission is to re-create the beauty and luminosity of precious gemstones. Phipps’s commitment to this aesthetic is evident in the table’s oblique shape, in which the top-right and bottom-left corners are curved. However, he subverts his imitation of a gemstone by making the other two corners perfectly convex. Overall, the table retains a degree of symmetry that one would not find in a natural stone. Phipps does not compromise sleek, balanced design for total conceptual loyalty in the Stellar Console. The result is a spectacular table with a conceptual edge (or many edges, literally speaking).

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