12 February 2007
Sacha Lakic is probably more well known in Europe for his automobile design, however he does design just about anything and everything. Like tables for Roche Bobois, for instance. The Speed Up table, shown here, is one of several in a collection Mr. Lakic has recently designed for the company. It harkens back to the work of Eero Saarinen and his Tulip collection for Knoll. However, Lakic’s piece diverges first by making the Speed Up table symmetrical along one axis instead of two as the Tulip Table is. Lakic also stretches the table out to one end giving the table a distinct feeling of motion. I could almost compare these tables to Michelangelo’s David versus Bernini’s David. One is static and perfect while the other is dynamic and in constant motion.
Object: Speed Up
Designer: Sacha Lakic
Manufacturer: RocheBobois
Year: 2007
URL: www.roche-bobois.com
Lust Factor: Hot
Categories: Furniture | Lust Factor: Hot | Plastic | White
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March 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
[...] I don’t know how or why I came about this architect duo. Probably I was smoking a joint while surfing. I wonder because it’s not often that I would consider including a product on the site designed by someone with a name I can’t pronounce. “Corneille Uedingslohmann” doesn’t just fall off the tongue for me. However, their presentation table slips easily into my consciousness . The table they have created is very similar in form to Sacha Lakic’s table that I showed a while back, except this one floats over the ground. Oh, not by some new-fangled electromagnet technology. This one hangs from a structural post concealed from the ceiling. What I find striking about this piece may simply be that the means of production for such a piece is open to any designer that can dream it. I guess I wasn’t sure a piece like this was possible until I saw it. Now I can add this into my realm of possibilities. [...]