SEA TABLE

OBJECTS/RESEARCH

2018

BUILT

SARA RESTAURANT

OAK, CAESARSTONE, FELT

KURTIS CHEN

CATEGORY

YEAR

STATUS

CLIENT

MATERIALS

PHOTOS

Similar to the space, the custom dining tables designed for Sara Restaurant were inspired by the forms and feel of the shoreline. The sculpted modular design allows for different spatial configurations depending on the number of diners, and most importantly — like the food that will be served on them — they were designed with sharing and connection in mind. By providing a hidden cell phone compartment hollowed out of the table base and accessed through a removable inlay in the top, the tables encourage guests to relinquish their cell phones and dine without distraction.

Table disassembled into Caesarstone tabletop, wood turned base, and Caesarstone tabletop lid, resting in sand on beach in Toronto

Animation of water washing over Caesarstone custom tabletop lid

Similar to the space, the custom dining tables designed for Sara Restaurant were inspired by the forms and feel of the shoreline. The sculpted modular design allows for different spatial configurations depending on the number of diners, and most importantly — like the food that will be served on them — they were designed with sharing and connection in mind.

Animated image showing reconfiguration of modular tables to fit into corners and provide various dining options in Sara Restaurant

Bespoke dining table with curved Caesarstone tabletop, and wood turned ash table base

Detail image showing inlay tabletop lid partially removed, exposing cell phone cubby buried into underside of table