Meï - Meï 07 Console
by Agence Volta
Material
Walnut
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The Meï 07 is a semi-circular console table by Agence Volta, designed as part of the Meï collection for Monde Singulier.
The piece presents a continuous curve across its front face, carried through integrated side panels and anchored by a central vertical element. The pale, smooth top contrasts with the dark walnut body below, offering a tonal shift that reinforces the visual division between surface and structure.
The dark walnut body follows the same logic applied throughout the Meï collection: frontal planes that expose the wood grain without distraction. The pale top introduces a subtle material distinction within an otherwise unified walnut composition.
In Volta's practice, the console is a demanding form: it asks for a clear relationship between wall, structure, and surface. The Meï 07 answers with geometry: a curve, a vertical axis, and a tonal contrast between light top and dark base.
W 120 x D 34.5 x H 80 cm
W 47.24 x D 13.58 x H 31.5 in
Materials: Walnut
About
Agence Volta
Volta is a Paris architecture and interior design studio founded in 2016 by Agathe Lavaud. Based in the Marais (3rd arrondissement), the studio works on bespoke private commissions: apartments, country houses, and heritage buildings treated as distinct spatial problems rather than typological exercises.
Six months studying in Rome gave Lavaud her foundational references. Aldo Rossi and Andrea Palladio shaped her attachment to symmetry and classical proportion. Those references surface in her work through structure and restraint, not quotation. The studio draws by hand and builds physical models; 3D renderings come last, if at all. Lavaud notes that 90% of clients learn to trust what they cannot yet visualize.
Materials define the studio's practice. Lavaud has developed a proprietary cork tinting process using natural pigments, a formula refined after a sourcing trip to Porto. The studio also collaborates with startups producing merrazzo from marine sediments, treating material innovation as a design value rather than a sustainability checkbox. Natural varnishes, textured stone, and a restrained chromatic palette run through the work consistently.
Notable projects include a duplex renovation in a Paris Art Deco building, an apartment in Marcel Breuer's Flaine ski station (2019), and a country house near Chantilly (2023). Each project begins with a detailed reading of the site; the intervention seeks to enhance the existing character rather than overwrite it.

























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