Orbite - Arche Console
by Altin
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The Arche is a console table with a thick oval slab top in dark wood. The slab is generous in section: not a thin panel but a real mass of material, its edges left with the softened geometry of a worked plank. Three cylindrical legs, slightly tapered, support it without secondary structure. No stretcher, no apron, no additional framing.
The form is archaic in the best sense. An arch, a standing stone, a horizontal surface that needs no justification. Arche in French carries both arch and arc as meanings; the oval top holds that resonance without forcing it.
Dark wood grain shows clearly through the finish, each plank carrying its own variation of tone, structure, and growth history.
From the Orbite collection by Altin Studio (AD100, founded 2023 by Yasmine and Mehdi). A piece that holds through its mass rather than its detail, equally suited to an entry hall or a long corridor.
W 220 x D 55 x H 78 cm
W 86.61 x D 21.65 x H 30.71 in
Materials: Hand-carved palm wood
About
Altin
Altin is a Tunisian design studio founded in 2023 by Yasmine, a Paris-trained interior architect, and Mehdi, a civil engineer. Their practice is rooted in direct engagement with ancestral Tunisian craft, treating traditional techniques not as cultural reference but as working method.
The studio draws from Tunisian artisanal traditions, some tracing back to the Neolithic period. Yasmine and Mehdi treat these practices as living knowledge: skills transmitted across generations, shaped by the country's layered cultural history. Their approach to organic minimalism places material at the center. The weight of dark-stained wood, the texture of patinated copper and bronze, the surface imperfections that industrial manufacture eliminates. These are not flaws to correct but marks to preserve.
Altin was recognized by Architectural Digest's AD100 list, a distinction rarely accorded to studios as young as theirs.
On Monde Singulier, Altin presents the Orbite collection: coffee tables, a lounge chair, a console, a cabinet, and a stool, built around a consistent vocabulary of rounded, organic forms and raw finishes. The Ganymède cabinet combines woven straw with patinated copper hardware. The Mer et Cratère table carries shallow circular depressions carved into its dark wood surface. Each piece extends the studio's artisanal sensibility into domestic space.
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