Slab - Side Table
by Benni Allan
Material
Dark
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The Slab Side Table sets three geometries in conversation. A solid oak cylinder, the column in its most direct form, supports a thick dark grey square top that extends past the base on all sides. Pressed into that overhanging surface, a recessed circular basin introduces a third shape: functional, precise, and quietly unexpected.
The overhang makes the weight-over-slender relationship explicit. The square top holds its position through compression logic, not decoration. The circular basin provides a practical counterpoint: a surface for a glass, a candle, any small object that needs to stay.
Materials reinforce the geometry. The cool dark stone-effect top reads as mass; the light cylindrical wood base reads as structural precision. Benni Allan uses material opposition to make structural ideas immediately readable, a method consistent across EBBA Architects' work from buildings through to furniture.
An accent piece from EBBA's Slab collection, designed in London. Available with the full Slab family at Monde Singulier.
W 60 x D 40 x H 45 cm
W 23.62 x D 15.75 x H 17.72 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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