The Chord console table
The world of interior design may be endlessly diverse and stylistically inexhaustible, but far from every designer piece will instill the desire to touch it when you see its photo in an interior setting or in a catalogue. The Chord designer console table from the Pythagoras series by Metalworkshop is just such a piece. The moment you see it you feel the urge to slide your hand across the smooth brass tabletop surface, trace the modulations of its rigorous forms, and feel the dignified breathing of metal on the skin of you palm.
In front of us is a fine piece of interior décor with lots of character. Understated yet esthetically pleasing, it looks wealthy and original, basic and chic all at the same time. As you peruse this console table, you perceive and you realize what meticulous detailing it took to design and build this interior decoration. On top of the designer’s inspirational and tactful professional treatment of every detail, we can observe in this piece ample evidence of a superb command of metalworking knowhow and of the designer’s unlimited confidence in the acumen and expert touch of the blacksmiths that gave flesh to the designer’s ideas with such uncanny precision and impeccable workmanship.
A long time ago, in Louis XIV’s France, those artists whose mission was to promulgate the then-novel style of classicism, designed console tables with luxury at the heart. Many a style have since come and gone. Palaces and mansions have been decorated and redecorated with countless luxury items, but an elegant console table somewhere in the hall or the living room is still a great decoration idea that gets along marvelously with any style. The principle and concept of timeless luxury is at the heart of the Chord designer console table from the Pythagoras collection, crafted by Metalworkshop master blacksmiths.
This is recherché geometry, deluxe simplicity, and understated chic in a noble brass setting. The ancient Greek word ‘chord’, translated as ‘string,’ is a fitting description for this console table. The word ‘chord’, in the meaning of ‘straight line’, is used in several branches of science. In geometry, the chord is defined as the line segment joining any two points on the circumference of a circle or ellipse. The word is also in use in biology, botany, aviation, medicine, and anatomy. The designers and blacksmiths at Metalworkshop have redefined the term ‘chord’ by giving this name to an exclusive console table they created. Its metal-clad geometry mesmerizes with its austere linearity, clear-cut forms, and compositional integrity.
The Chord console table has a semicircular tabletop. There is a small pullout drawer underneath for the inconspicuous storage of all sorts of precious minutiae or simply things one wishes to keep within easy reach. Structurally, the table is a brass carcass on two legs with an arc at the bottom. Curiously, the table comes across as entirely solid, as if cut out from a chunk of brass. For a split second, you even catch yourself wondering if it might be solid gold. It is easy to explain this visual effect. The joints are so perfectly aligned on the brass surfaces that there are no visible clearances. And since all joints run along surface borders, the piece looks as if it were extruded from a solid piece of brass. This visual impression could make the table appear heavier but it doesn’t. The design of the Chord console table is thought out so carefully and in such detail that the effect of solidity only serves to enhance the item’s feel of top-end luxury, elegance and status. Wherever Chord is placed, it will project its own storyline upon the surrounding ambience.
The Chord console table is truly a work of contemporary art envisioned by a Metalworkshop designer and given substance by our blacksmithing artists. An excellent showpiece and a distinguished décor item, this table will make a welcome addition to the interior design chemistry of any home or apartment, and it will be a pleasure to behold in any environment. Chord will fit in seamlessly with any interior concept, whether traditional or any form of contemporary, but solely on the proviso that luxury is the touchstone. The table is entirely universal for all other intents and purposes. It will get along nicely with any other decorations and furnishings, and it will never encumber or overload the space around. Wherever the owner elects to put it, Chord will always contribute to ambient comfort and harmony. It is always welcome in any room. Compact and functional, this console table is positively indispensable in the hall where you can put your keys, your purse, or the bouquet of flowers you have just received on it when you come home. Chord will add an interesting accent to the living room ambience where its role may vary depending on the nature of the event in progress. It may serve simply as the surface for a clock or a flower vase, or it may be utilized as a coffee/serving table or bar for a party, official function, or gala dinner. Chord will fit in naturally and effortlessly in the bedchamber, most likely in the capacity of an expensive, elegant toilet table. And you can always sit down at this table to read a book or browse your laptop computer for a little while.
The Chord designer console table is a singularly attractive piece of furniture fit for many roles and incarnations. An elegant supporting actor resigned to low-key stage presence in one place, it will shine and get all attention somewhere else. As if cut out from a solid piece of brass, this table is entirely self-sufficient. With the right approach (and with all due respect for the status of the piece and of the home environment), it is eminently fit to hold something meaningful or something beautiful – as long as the object does not compromise its exalted status.
There are some beautiful things, and there are luxury-class and expensive interior décor items and creative designer pieces of every description out there. But sometimes there is a handcrafted piece that’s unlike any other, that combines strength and tenderness, austerity and elegance into a synergy that sets it apart. In all likelihood, the reason that this happens is that it is not an isolated object but its own trope in which bits of ancient Greek geometry, decorative sophistication of France, modern high tech, and Metalworkshop-generated designer ideas converge for a timeless effect.
