Orbite - Mer et Cratère Coffee Table

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.