Collection 01 - Barbara Coffee Table
by Studio Akademos
Material
American Walnut
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The Barbara Coffee Table is Collection 01's focal point for the living room, named for a Parisian figure of the 1960s and 70s who was at once a cultural force and a social nucleus. Barbara, the table, is designed with the same understanding: in any room, the coffee table is where everything converges.
Studio Akademos, Paris's AD 100 interior design studio, built this piece around the Café Society interior design tradition, a world of considered gatherings, good light, and furniture that earns its position. The Barbara Coffee Table is the point around which drinks are set, books land open, and conversations find their footing.
Its form draws on the geometric rigour of the 1970s avant-garde that runs through the entire Collection 01 aesthetic: architectural but liveable, confident but not severe. The studio's founding principle, that every piece must tell a story, gives the Barbara a weight beyond its physical dimensions.
A luxury coffee table from a French AD 100 designer furniture studio, Barbara is the kind of piece that makes the rest of the room cohere.
W 160 x D 100 x H 47 cm
W 62.99 x D 39.37 x H 18.5 in
Materials: High-gloss lacquered American walnut Satin stainless steel Gloss lacquer RAL 3004 Interior fabric: Loro Piana cashmere & wool
About
Studio Akademos
Studio Akademos is a Paris interior design and furniture studio, founded in 2021. Within three years of opening, it joined the AD 100 (Architectural Digest's annual list of the world's leading designers), a recognition that reflects both the quality of its residential interiors and the precision of its furniture editions.
The studio builds its aesthetic from three distinct historical sources: the opulent sociability of Café Society at its interwar peak, the avant-garde formal confidence of European design in the 1970s, and the functional precision that contemporary domestic life demands. The combination is not decorative nostalgia. Each source era is studied at depth before a project begins, and every decision, from proportion to material to surface finish, must be traceable back to that foundation. Material selection is part of the same rigour: each surface is chosen for what it contributes to the narrative the piece is meant to carry.
Furniture and interiors follow the same logic. Before a line is drawn, the studio poses two questions: what story does this piece or space tell, and how does it serve the client's aesthetic and daily reality? Both answers must be in place before work moves forward, and no element is introduced without justification.
Studio Akademos designs complete residential interiors and develops furniture series, available on Monde Singulier.
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