Courbes Alléchantes Coffee Table
Collection Courbes Alléchantes
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- Axel Chay
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- Courbes Alléchantes
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The story
Round glass floats above a base that refuses to behave like one. The Courbes Alléchantes coffee table rests on a chamois faux-fur structure: looping aluminium tubes wrapped in warm, dense textile, coiling low to the floor in a series of sculptural knots. The contrast is deliberate. Hard glass, translucent and cool, suspended above something soft and tactile.
Axel Chay's Marseille studio produces the base by hand; his brother Aimeric wraps each tubular form with the same precision applied to structural metalwork throughout the collection. Up close, the glass top seems almost provisional, as if set lightly over an object with its own agenda. The low profile keeps the silhouette grounded, letting the faux-fur base read as sculpture before it reads as furniture.
Part of the Courbes Alléchantes collection, where aluminium frames shed their industrial character and take on a sensory one: made strange through wrapping, texture, and the accumulated weight of chamois fur over structural metal. Available on Monde Singulier.
About Axel Chay
Axel Chay is a self-taught designer based in Marseille, working across sculptural furniture, lighting, and art objects. He co-founded Nova Obiecta in 2013 before launching his own studio in 2020, now run as a family enterprise: Axel designs, his wife Melissa handles communication and brand identity, and his brother Aimeric produces the pieces in their Marseille atelier.
His work draws from the Mediterranean coastline where he grew up, from the kinetic artists he admires (Donald Judd, Tom Wesselmann, Julio Le Parc, Geneviève Claisse), and from the Memphis movement's rejection of neutral design. He resists any fixed identity: "I try to draw things that I like and that are not trivial." The result is sculptural furniture and lighting that is colorful, graphic, and built to hold its presence in a room.
Delivery
Every piece is packed and shipped under insurance, from the workshop to you. White glove delivery (unpacking, installation, packaging removal) is available on request. Delivery is not charged at checkout: we send you a quote within 24 business hours of your order. You have 5 days to accept and pay it (secure payment link or bank transfer), otherwise your order is cancelled and fully refunded.
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