Unmistakably playful art furniture — :DUFFY
An art-furniture coffee table precedent by Duffy London that uses layered, tinted wooden contours beneath glass to simulate bathymetric ocean depths.
- What we like about this project
- The flat glass top completely neutralizes the actual physical steps of the wood, creating a perfectly smooth horizontal surface over a deeply recessed abyss.
Materials
- glass
- wood
- plywood
Visual identifiers
- topographical-layers
- glass-top
- blue-strata
- ocean-depth-illusion
Style tags
- sculptural
- playful
- contemporary-craft
Visual tags
- furniture-design
- bespoke
- optical-illusion
- layered-wood
- playful-interior
- Geometry
- Circular table form with concentric, layered topographical contour cuts that drop inward into deep blue wells, capped by a flush transparent glass disk.
- Structural guess
- Stacked sheet material forming both the structural base and the internal topographical topography.
- Spatial scale
- Coffee table scale, designed for close human interaction in a living space.
- Lighting
- Soft ambient light casting gentle shadows across the tiered wooden strata and a sharp reflection on the glass surface.
- Atmosphere
- Whimsical and hypnotic, combining natural wood warmth with aquatic illusion.
- Environmental context
- Indoor setting with a neutral tiled floor and plain wall background, focusing attention entirely on the furniture piece.
- Spatial experience
- Gazing down into the table mimics looking into an ocean trench, where layered contours create a powerful optical illusion of depth.
- Composition rhythm
- Concentric undulating contour steps expanding outward from deep central voids.
- Style reading
- Playful sculptural art furniture
- Program
- Residential living room furniture
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- glass, wood, plywood
- Visual identifiers
- topographical-layers, glass-top, blue-strata, ocean-depth-illusion
- Style tags
- sculptural, playful, contemporary-craft
- Visual tags
- furniture-design, bespoke, optical-illusion, layered-wood, playful-interior
- Geometry
- Circular table form with concentric, layered topographical contour cuts that drop inward into deep blue wells, capped by a flush transparent glass disk.
- Structural guess
- Stacked sheet material forming both the structural base and the internal topographical topography.
- Spatial scale
- Coffee table scale, designed for close human interaction in a living space.
- Lighting
- Soft ambient light casting gentle shadows across the tiered wooden strata and a sharp reflection on the glass surface.
- Atmosphere
- Whimsical and hypnotic, combining natural wood warmth with aquatic illusion.
- Environmental context
- Indoor setting with a neutral tiled floor and plain wall background, focusing attention entirely on the furniture piece.
- Spatial experience
- Gazing down into the table mimics looking into an ocean trench, where layered contours create a powerful optical illusion of depth.
- Composition rhythm
- Concentric undulating contour steps expanding outward from deep central voids.
- Style reading
- Playful sculptural art furniture
- Program
- Residential living room furniture
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- interior