London Design Festival: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has created a trestle table and bench with timber parts held in tension by sheets of bowed steel.

The trestle table rests across two sets of tripod legs, each supported by a rolled sheet of steel, while the bench sits over a single long strip of steel.

"The rolled steel allows for a great strength to weight ratio as well as economy of materials," explained Hubert. "It also has the benefit in the bench of giving suspension to the user and some flex to the seat."

The Bow collection launched at the designjunction trade show during London Design Festival last month, where Hubert also showed a lighting collection made of mesh fabric and a chair constructed from a piece of T-shirt-shaped curled plywood.

The pieces were produced in collaboration with Portuguese manufacturer De La Espada, who last year invited Hubert to design his first complete collection.

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Bow by Benjamin Hubert x De La Espada
Bow is a series of furniture including a trestle table and bench launching at the London Design Festival in collaboration with Portuguese manufacturer De La Espada.

Bow is a system of simple timber frames and surfaces held in tension by a rolled sheet of mild steel. The rolled steel allows for a great strength to weight ratio swell as economy of materials. It also has the benefit in the bench of giving suspension to the user and some flex to the seat.

The integration between the steel and timber has been CNC cut to maintain a fluid integration of the two materials and geometries. The timber and steel system has also been designed to be knockdown for cost effective shipping to reduce its carbon footprint. The system has been developed over a period of 12 months after several interations of prototying and testing.

Materials:
Solid Ash Mild Steel
Dimensions:
Bench H 450mmx L1800mm x D400mm
Trestle H 740mmx L1800mm x D900mm