La Gala Home CHAOS Barrel-shaped glass table

CHAOS is a barrel-shaped glass table.‎ A glass table that captures the primordial chaos of matter: a flaw that is not corrected but embraced.‎ There is a moment, in the glass, when the material ceases to obey.‎ It happens without warning: the surface thickens, ripples, shrinks, and what was meant to be uniform slips beyond control.‎ Chaos begins there, at the point where the human hand stops and that of matter takes over.‎ That sheet is too irregular to be cut, too alive to be printed on: the reject of the reject, what even the salvage process could not salvage.‎ It should have gone back into the kiln and started all over again.‎ CHAOS is the gesture that halts it a moment before, and a flaw that becomes a design.‎ The barrel-shaped slab has two sides: on one side it remains clear, smooth and still.‎ On the other, it becomes crust, rock, earth pierced by heat.‎ The bases tell the same story: textured and uneven on one side, transparent and glossy on the other, with an enveloping, organic shape that seems to emerge from the ground and support the surface without any divisions, without screws or joints.‎ The table is made entirely of glass, from start to finish.‎ There is nothing to dismantle, nothing to separate: when its time is up, CHAOS will not become waste to be broken down; it will simply return to the material from which it came.‎ The circle that held it is the same one that welcomes it back.‎ CHAOS evokes primordial disorder, when forms had not yet been determined.‎ The pattern that runs across each slab was not designed and will never appear again: this is why the run is limited and every CHAOS table is unique.‎ Like the Ensō, it is created in a single breath and is neither corrected, repeated nor retouched.‎ A continuous gesture, without beginning or end.‎ Leg finishes: Saturaglass Fume In the Kimeya Nature collection, the four elements – air, water, earth and fire – are represented through a balanced combination of shapes, textures and reflections.‎ The medium of glass is rendered fluid, reminiscent of water; light is depicted in a dancing motion, akin to air; pigments are utilised to evoke the potency of the earth; and the warmth of the veins alludes to the energy of fire.‎ The creations are functional works of art, in which the immaterial connection between external beauty and the inner depth of the designer is perceived, and the sacredness of nature is celebrated, with the magic of transparency being played with.‎ The products are unified by a shared characteristic of vibrant contemporaneity, emphasising a journey characterised by moments of inspiration and creative gestures.‎ This journey is akin to a flow that is impossible to escape, engaging and captivating the observer between dynamism and stillness, matter and emotion.‎ Further info from manufacturer on CHAOS La Gala Home