Flat-Pack Stone Coffee Table

Tectonica is the first of a series of flat pack items made in resin. This coffee table was developed by emerging designers Paül Ordoñez and Juliano Fogaça Santos Lima for the Melbourne Fringe furniture Exhibition 2015 series.

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505 (W)  x 1075 (L) x 337 (H); tabletop and legs are both 40mm thick.

Polyester resin, Victorian bluestone and steel.

As an emerging designer I like to push boundaries. I take the concept of ready-to-assemble furniture to more experimental levels. With the use of resins, stone and recycled material I attempt to evoke lava flow, amber and erosion in the ever-changing design industry.

The Real Challenge was to merge two contrasting materials, resin and stone, into a coherent whole.  Although resin is strong, durable and pliable, it can easily shatter if impacted by a hard object. On the other hand, stone is a hard and very strong material, but less workable. 

The design shaves away unnecessary bulk to express the structure of the object, communicating rather than concealing the strength of the stone.

Further, the materials used embody a deliberately organic language, conveying their stories, origins and the connection that exists between these natural elements.