Outdoor Coffee Table, Dubai.

The Antibes is made to order in the Emirates. Its rounded volume anchors an outdoor setting while keeping visual lightness, which is the balance a low table has to strike outdoors. A heavy rectangular block reads as an obstacle in a garden. A small round table reads as an afterthought. The clover form gives surface where it is needed and gives it back where circulation matters. Height is the quiet decision. The Antibes sits low enough to keep the sightline across a pool open from a seated position, and high enough that a glass is reachable without leaning out of the sunbed. On a made to order piece this can be adjusted where a project asks for a different seat height.

Outdoor low tables fail in a predictable order. The finish goes first, then the joint where the top meets the base, then the surface itself once water has been standing on it through a summer. Making the piece to order in the Emirates rather than shipping it in means the studio specifies for the climate it will actually live in, and can state what the chosen cloth and construction are rated for before an order is confirmed rather than after. A clover form also earns its place socially. A round table gives everyone the same reach and no one a surface of their own. A rectangle gives two people a surface and leaves the ends useless. Four petals give each seat its own lobe, which is why the piece works between two sunbeds without anyone reaching across.