Table

The brief, by elimination: not wood, that was already the kitchen table. Not metal, too cold for a room meant to gather people. Not glass: a glass table hides nothing, and this room needed gravity, not transparency. Marble was already running through the house. Suggesting it for the table top was the easy part.

The harder part was the base. A dining room carved out of one large open space needs an anchor, and four legs wouldn’t have done the work, practically or otherwise. The pyramidal form solves both problems at once: more room to seat people without legs in the way, and from certain angles, the table reads like a balancing act: all that weight resting on a single point.

It seats six. It feels like it could hold the whole room.