With this in mind, we had to find a common language that would be the base of a variety of options. It is a very industrial project in injected aluminium.
The Tambour tables come with one or two levels and with or without wheels. We shaped these tables to reach a balance between formal elegance and simplicity. We wanted to reach a certain form of subtle presence for this object that doesn't openly claim Modernity.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Breton-born brothers, are the stars of European design and the most promising industrial designers to have emerged from France since Philippe Starck in the 1980s.
A combination of romanticism and functionality runs throughout both brothers’ work. Like all truly talented designers, the Bouroullecs have defined a distinctive visual style, which Jasper Morrison (one of the designers they most admire) described as “thoughtful and disciplined, with a real spirit and poetry”.