In Hale Coffee Table Honey Onyx and Faux Marble

In the In Hale series, a substantial fragment of natural stone often rests on an apparently inflated cushion, in an exploration of the limits of what is possible through a play of weight and materiality. Here, albeit subtly and almost unnoticeably, a variation is introduced. For those who may think that the cushion and the stone are, for once, of a similar nature and both extracted from the same layers of our millennia-old world, they would be mistaken.
The distinctive cushion – again a steel version, with plates welded together and then partially separated by air pressure to create an inflated effect – has been painted by Pierre-Yves Morel. In an act of near-mimicry, the painting approximates the appearance of the Honey Onyx on top, down to the finest detail, copying its veins and warm yellow hues. Until the visual distinction virtually disappears, the two elements converge in harmony.