NEW: coffee table by Tecta

Tap it lightly and the tabletop opens out. You virtually expect some kind of buzzing sound but the movement follows your hand noiselessly.

Wolfgang Hartauer’s tables are ingenious marvels. Sculptural cylinders that make a statement out of a room. Hartauer designed them while looking for a decent coffee table. Nothing suitable to be found? He made a virtue of necessity and simply made one himself. Ulm-born Hartauer, who studied architecture in Munich, created rings out of MDF boards and joined them together seamlessly like the annual growth rings on a tree. For him the fact that the base of the larger table would remain hollow had a beneficial side effect in that it provided storage space.

This table is not just a table. The black-imbued MDF rings lend it a structure. The revolving tabletop that opens out to the side can be used to store things and allows you to look inside. Hartauer’s motto: “All that is revealed must be beautiful.” The interior is striking: meticulously crafted with a stainless steel shaft that revolves noiselessly on slide bearings and makes the whole thing movable. Like clockwork.

Hartauer’s tables are transformed into objects, evoke El Lissitzky’s cloud irons, the minimal sculptures of Donald Judd, while blending seamlessly into Tecta’s collection. Inspired by Tecta’s cantilever chairs and objects that trigger emotions: love of detail, precision and simplicity. “Create something that

you will never tire of looking at,” was Hartauer’s ambition. The result: architectural pieces of furniture that communicate with each other and create space.