Amare Collection - AR14_ESE
by Amare
Material
Portobello Marble
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The AR14 ESE is a low table from the Amare Collection that works in two registers at once. The top section is upholstered in a dark textile, with a smaller offset cushion sitting above it. Below, a dark frame encloses an inset panel of black stone with gold veining, irregular, luminous, and visibly natural.
The piece sits close to the ground, which brings the stone panel into view rather than hiding it beneath a conventional tabletop. The gold veining catches light at a low angle, shifting the reading of the piece from austere to warm depending on the hour.
Amare founder Bertille Achard de la Vente designed the Amare Collection around the particular stones, woods, and metals found in Tuscany. The AR14 ESE concentrates several of those materials in a single object: dark textile, dark wood, black stone, and raw gold. Each layer is legible; none is decorative in isolation.
Handcrafted in Italy. Available through the Monde Singulier catalog.
W 70 x D 70 x H 34 cm
W 27.56 x D 27.56 x H 13.39 in
Materials: Portoro marble, burnt wood, dark linen
About
Amare
AMARE is an Italian design studio founded by Bertille Achard de la Vente. Based in Tuscany, the studio makes furniture at the intersection of minimalism and brutalism, drawing on the particular stones, woods, and metals of the region.
Achard de la Vente established AMARE around a single premise: that raw material deserves to be the subject of a piece, not its backdrop. Each object in the Amare Collection is designed to make the source material visible. The wood is distressed rather than smoothed. The stone carries its veining without intervention. The steel ages rather than being sealed. Nothing is mediated away from what the original material was.
The Amare Collection spans seating, tables, and lighting. The seating pieces, chaise longues and benches, share a low grounded geometry. Their bases are dark, worked from Tuscan wood that retains its natural texture; the upholstered surfaces are pale beige textile, quiet against the rough base below. The contrast is the design.
The tables work in a different register. The AR03 ESE is two concentric discs in dark weathered steel. The AR13 and AR14 combine dark wood with black stone, gold veining running through the material in lines that respond to the angle of light. The tables sit close to the floor, the stone panels legible from a standing position.
The lighting, a series of octagonal pendant forms cast in light beige composite material, extends the studio's language into the ceiling plane. Each pendant is faceted and sculptural, suspended by a thin wire that keeps the object rather than its mounting in view.
AMARE pieces are unique and handcrafted in Italy. The full collection is available through Monde Singulier.

































