ED BERRIOS

.0045

Dimensions

350 cm (W) × 110 cm (D) × 75 cm (H)

Materials

Verde Guatemala marble with honed and lightly waxed surfaces.

Collection

A study in scale and the grace of stone, Linea Prima .0045 is conceived as a long horizon held above two grounded masses — a 3.50-metre slab of Verde Guatemala marble on two solid end-block legs. Two monolithic blocks meet the floor square. One long slab rests across them, the top oversailing each leg slightly so a clean shadow registers below. Nothing taps; every face stays on plane. Verde Guatemala marble is a deep, foresty serpentine — a forest green mottled with quartz veining and lighter passages. The faces are honed and lightly waxed, soft to the eye. The white veining surfaces and draws the eye the length of the table. Look close at the leg-to-slab joints. Stone sits on stone with no mediator — no metal collar, no shim, no chamfer. A clean shadow line beneath the slab is the only ornament on the piece. Linea Prima .0045 is intended as an architectural dining table — a piece that anchors the room and seats twelve in a single horizon. Suited to private residences, collectors’ interiors, and dining rooms conceived as architecture