Slab - Coffee Table - L
by Benni Allan
Material
Dark
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The Slab Coffee Table L is the largest piece in Benni Allan's Slab collection, a low rectangular table where architectural thinking meets material precision. The top reads as a structural beam: a thick, dark steel slab treated to a rich patina, its surface pressed with translucent white circles that trace the columns beneath.
At this scale, the material dialogue between dark, patinated steel and pale natural oak has room to breathe. The circular imprints spread across the surface create a rhythm that shifts with the angle of light. Nothing is incidental. Each circle marks the position of a leg below, making the structural logic of the piece visible at the surface.
The Slab collection stems from Benni Allan's investigation into the column-and-beam relationship in architecture, translated into domestic furniture. Allan (EBBA Architects, London) was named Young Architect of the Year by Building Design (UK) and received a Dezeen Awards finalist nomination with his Low Collection.
Available as part of the complete Slab family at Monde Singulier.
W 140 x D 120 x H 25 cm
W 55.12 x D 47.24 x H 9.84 in
Materials: Solid European Oak / Brushed & Oiled Steel Dark
About
Benni Allan
Benni Allan is the founder of EBBA Architects, a London studio working at the intersection of architecture, furniture, and visual arts. Born and raised in Spain and trained at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture, he established EBBA in 2016 around a single conviction: buildings and objects should carry emotional weight alongside functional logic.
His approach centers on material precision and spatial restraint. Where other studios pursue novelty through technology, EBBA works through geometry and substance: solid oak, raw concrete, stone, forms reduced to their essential proportions. The Silo Collection (2025) and the Low Collection, a Dezeen Awards finalist produced with Béton Brut in 2022, show this method at its clearest. Each piece is CNC-milled and then hand-finished, with geometry doing the work of softening volumes that might otherwise read as severe.
That same discipline extends to architectural commissions. The WatchHouse Fenchurch Street fit-out, the "Fragile Beauty" exhibition designed for Elton John and David Furnish at the V&A (2025), and the La Falda school renovation in Alicante all reflect a practice that moves between scales without losing coherence. Building Design UK named Allan Young Architect of the Year; Wallpaper and Platform Magazine have both identified him as a forerunner of his generation.
Beyond the studio, Allan co-founded AORA, a platform at the intersection of art, architecture, and wellbeing, and teaches design at the University of Greenwich while serving as external critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Central Saint Martins.
On Monde Singulier, his furniture (clean-lined, deliberately weighted, built for decades of use) belongs to a practice where architecture and object-making answer to the same exacting standard.
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