Orbite - Série Première Coffee Table
by Altin
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The Série Première is a low rectangular table whose hammered bronze top carries the visible record of its making. Each impact of the tool remains in the surface: shallow depressions that catch and release light as the day turns. Four conical legs in dark wood flare outward at the base, giving the piece a quiet stability that reads more geological than designed.
Material contrast is the central argument. Hammered bronze belongs to a long tradition of Tunisian metalwork, from the copper platters of Sfax to the worked metal of Tunis's medinas. The dark wooden legs anchor it in the organic, grain-forward palette that runs through the entire Orbite collection. Neither material retreats to accommodate the other; they hold their tension.
Altin was founded in 2023 by Yasmine, a Paris-trained interior architect, and Mehdi, a civil engineer. Their Orbite collection takes celestial bodies as its organizing principle: orbits, masses, gravitational pull. The Série Première is the collection's opening piece, substantial, horizontal, without excess.
The proportions suit wide living spaces where a coffee table must function as both surface and sculptural anchor. In raking light, the hammered texture shifts from flat to faintly luminous.
W 105 x D 55 x H 50 cm
W 41.34 x D 21.65 x H 19.69 in
Materials: Hammered metal top and palm wood legs carved from the mass
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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