Epic Tabular Array Collection Yesteryear Gamfratesi For Gubi

Continuing their long-standing human relationship with award-winning duo GamFratesi, Danish pattern fellowship GUBI has launched the Epic Table Collection. Named afterwards the epic poems of ancient times, the tabular array is a sculptural slice of slice of furniture inspired past times Greek columns together with Roman architecture. Made inwards Italy from travertine stone, the monolithic shape emphasises the materiality of the stone, the natural beauty of its veins, together with the vibrant texture of its unique patina – inwards which a novel especial tin survive discovered with every use. 

‘Without textile at that topographic point is no soul. Positioning the textile at the see of the projection is an intellectual human activity together with celebrating odd stones together with natural finishes is aligned with our practise together with GUBI’s cerebral together with contemporary accept on the traditional,’ say Stine Gam together with Enrico Fratesi, the founders of GamFratesi. Jacob Gubi Olsen, Owner & Creative Director, GUBI, elaborates: ‘GUBI was a showtime mover inwards reintroducing marble to the habitation together with nosotros dear natural stone, but nosotros are e'er curious almost novel expressions together with materials. Travertine has a completely dissimilar materiality together with construction to marble together with fifty-fifty inwards the same colours, tin limited many dissimilar tones together with variations.’

The Epic Table is a celebration of Italian travertine stone, inwards reply to the growing wish for the honesty together with authenticity of natural materials. The introduction of this little-known stone together with the careful pick of colours together with opened upwards textures move past times away along its materiality survive inwards the terminal product. Individual pieces are selected for the line of their veining together with striations, giving each tabular array a unique human face of its ain identity. A low-cal filler together with matte handling on the tabletop together with base of operations protect the surfaces, acre allowing its natural tactility to survive experienced every bit if cutting from the rock. 

Inspired past times historical examples of travertine constructions such every bit the Colosseum together with Saint Peter’s Basilica inwards Rome, together with the 1970s revival of the textile inwards Southern Europe, the tabular array combines 2 uncomplicated geometric shapes, the circle together with the hexagon, with references to the classical Greek column. This novel human face showcases together with enhances the material, acre maintaining a formal simplicity. The hexagonal column is an intelligent solution that enables a substantial human face to survive efficiently constructed from minimal materials.

The Stone options include Neutral White, Vibrant Gray or colourful Burnt Red, together with every bit these beautiful images demonstrate, each do a focal indicate of differing intensity, bringing both personality, naturalness together with tactility to interior spaces. The varying heights together with diameters inside the Epic Table Series hateful a unmarried monochromatic tabular array tin stand upwards lone or survive combined inwards dynamic clusters of varying pinnacle together with colour. Combining the tables with wooden, metallic element or textile pieces allows for farther contrasting groupings.

The Epic Table is the lawsuit of a shared journeying of regain into travertine stone every bit a natural material. A bespeak for the archetypal origins of the material’s piece of employment inwards pattern together with architecture ran amongst an in-depth written report of dissimilar stones, colours together with finishes, earlier lengthy experimentation with proportions, weight together with shape revealed the harmonious residual betwixt base, geometry together with tabletop inwards the terminal product.

I dear that the tables inwards this collection are to a greater extent than than but visually beautiful. They tell an inspiring even out that references history, combining rich materiality with considered design.

The Epic Collection volition survive inwards stores from Jan 2020. 

Images courtesy of GUBI

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