One of the smartest new table designs out is from La Corbeille, the trestle has been redesigned by Bénédicte de Lescure so that a table can be created from just one trestle. Now normally if you attempted to pop tabletop up on just one trestle rather than two, the tabletop would just flop off, but by sticking an V that’s like open arms at each end of the trestle, it can support the whole area of  the tabletop. It carries a glass tabletop with a diameter of up to 160cm, but if  a lighter material like wood is used it could be as wide as 210cm.

Perhaps if this design were jigged a little this trestle could work either way up. Then again that’s probably how this idea started out before it was refined considering it’s load-bearing logic. I imagine that we’ll be seeing variants of this idea over the next few years, since this is such such an economic, convivial and practical solution, I’m sure that sketchbooks are already busy.

Designed by  Jocelyn Deris for La Corbeille, the steel legs of this table are woven through the the oak table top like straps, hence its name in French, Sangle, which means Strap. Deris has a design style where there is often one element treated as a band that wraps around another element, in this case it is these strap legs. One of the advantages of these flat steel bars running across the table-top is to prevent it from bowing. The original design is an oval, but it now exist in circular and rectangular form.