T21 DINING TABLE

The T21D belongs among the best Chapo ever made. Although unmistakably sturdy, the clever geometry of the base keeps it from reading as heavy. Each leg is angled with deliberate exactness, the structure dynamic rather than static.

The round top exposes the full grain of solid elmwood, giving the piece an unmediated, natural character. The visible double joints running along the edge of the top are unmistakably Chapo. It's a process that makes craft legible with nothing concealed. 

Trained as an architect at the École des Beaux-Arts and shaped by Corbusier's research on proportion, Frank Lloyd Wright's balanced lines, and the rigor of Bauhaus, Chapo worked from three principles: material, form, function. On the T21D, those principles resolve into something that reads less like furniture and more like argument.

PIERRE CHAPO
FRANCE, 1950'S
49" x 28½"