CULEBRA - Tabula
by Gabriel Escámez
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Tabula is a dining table from Cobalto Studio's Culebra collection, designed by Gabriel Escámez. The collection name comes from the Spanish word for snake, a tension between sinuous movement and angular rigidity that runs through each piece.
The top is a thin rectangle of brushed metal in silver-grey. Two angled wooden bases in dark charcoal support it, their sculptural mass in direct contrast to the precision of the horizontal plane above. The contrast between the two materials reads as a formal decision rather than a practical one. A small stack of metal rings on the surface is a recurring signature across the Culebra series.
The bases are cut at angles that suggest movement contained rather than resolved. Their volume against the thinness of the top gives the piece more the quality of an object you walk around than a surface you use.
Gabriel Escámez directs Cobalto Studio from Barcelona. Recognised on the AD 100, the studio develops projects across furniture, interior design, and the editorial house La Cobalta. Tabula is available through Monde Singulier.
W 300 x D 65 x H 75 cm
W 118.11 x D 25.59 x H 29.53 in
Materials: Wood, Chrome Stainless Steel
About
Gabriel Escámez
Born in Barcelona in 1987, Gabriel Escámez is an AD 100-recognised designer and the director of COBALTO STUDIO, a multidisciplinary Barcelona practice working across art, fashion, interior design, and furniture.
His formation in Fine Arts and Interior Design grounds a practice that refuses narrow categorisation. At COBALTO STUDIO, Escámez develops projects that move between painting, sculpture, craft, and spatial design, each guided by a consistent visual language rooted in Mediterranean sensibility. Rationalism and vernacular simplicity are constants: materials used honestly, forms reduced to their essentials, nothing added without reason.
Alongside the studio, Escámez founded La Cobalta, an editorial centred on objects, lighting, ceramics, and books. The venture reflects the same discipline, selecting and presenting work that carries cultural weight without theatrical staging.
The AD 100 listing placed him among a group of practitioners whose work shapes contemporary interior culture across Spain and beyond. It is the industry's most cited recognition in architecture and design, and for Cobalto Studio it confirms a practice built on craft logic rather than market cycles.
His connection to the Mediterranean runs through the work as a structural attitude rather than surface reference: an attention to craft traditions, popular culture, and a kind of beauty that accumulates through use. That orientation sets Cobalto Studio apart from studios that position themselves through eclecticism or novelty alone.
Works by Gabriel Escámez are available through Monde Singulier.
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