Plato | Cerruti Baleri

Plato is a stool, a sidetable and a stackable container. It’s an iconic piece designed by Jeff Miller who chose the most classic of materials to carve a modern plastic form. Sculpting a hollow from a solid rather than fabricating from four sides imbues the overall form with a more elemental, integral and indeed sculptural resolution. It is as much about the negative space, the material that is missing, and the effort required to extract it, as the resulting material left visible, tangible and useful. Functionally, there are two surfaces of useful proportion to both contain and serve.

White Carrara marble sidetable, sculpted from a solid block, with bottom pad made of natural red wool felt. Plato can also be used as a stool or a stackable container.