Tim Keepers and Catherine Schultz, lead designers of Orchestra ONE Studio have created for a private client, a multi-purpose coffee table whose legs form the Taurus sign constellation.
The Taurus has been awarded a Prize Design for Modern Furniture + Lighting 2023 by Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design as Best Table Light of the Year 2023.
Once the pill tray is lifted out it reveals a well below which can be used as an in-place ice bucket for champagne/ wine or any other drink offering.
This well also serves a second purpose and ties into the display aspect of the table as it can be used to contain plants or flowers as well.
This creates a beautiful and unique condition where plants/flowers look like they are coming out of the center of the marble top itself.
Because they wanted to tie aspects of this into the table, the designers decided to take the constellation, and the different sizes of stars within, to create the pattern and sizes of the leg pipes.
The constellation, which is originally long and narrow in form, was gathered by pulling the two far edges to the center which then formed a more circular pattern.
The stars and their relative sizes remained correctly adjacent to one another albeit now in a different form.
