The colour and texture of the cast aluminium table legs, which have a black powder-coated finish, are nearly indistinguishable from the frame of the perfectly matched Belleville Chair. The tables and chairs form a unified yet diverse group - a hybrid family of furnishings whose materiality resists classification.
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”.