What happens when you allow the material to drive the design?

This temporary table and bar was a one-off, designed for the 15 sponsors of London’s Alliance Ball. Using only strips of laminated timber veneer, we designed the structure through prototyping and testing the material.

'We allowed the material to tell us what it wanted to do'

Our concept was built around the continuity of the 45-metre-long surface, which twisted and turned through the space.