JANE Marble table

Jane.‎ The table as an organic and free element in space.‎ Jean-Marie Massaud subverts the balances of this object to define a new sculptural regality.‎ The surface, vast and irregular, develops like a light sheet of material with three deliberately rounded corners.‎ Created from precious Emperador marble with its warm earthy tones, it sits atop three large supports that assume new compositional importance.‎ With a square cross section but also irregular and rounded, they resemble three dolmen or three large tree trunks.‎ These three rough sculptures capture our attention and appear to be rooted in the earth, engendering a sense of solidity that acts as a counterbalance to the natural lightness of the surface.‎ The ingenious steel junction between the legs and the top emphasises the sensation that the surface is floating in space.‎ Jane, with its unconventional design, imposes no positions or hierarchies.‎ Five, eight or ten people can be seated around it.‎ You can sit around one end, still quite spacious, and use the other for books or other objects.‎ Or you can use the entire surface for big meals.‎
Jane can also be used as a work table, organising its large surface in complete freedom.‎ For more informal spaces, but also as a highly elegant table in an executive office.‎
The bottom surface of the marble top has a technical mesh for strength and stability.‎
The legs have a solid beech wood core that is enclosed in four high-density MDF panels, shaped and veneered with moka- or wenge-stained ash.‎