High Profile / Low Table
The High Profile / Low Table complements MVRDV’s monograph, embodying its essence of design with Attitude. The table is conceived as an additional entry in the High Profile luminaire collection, designed in collaboration with and produced by Delta Light. The table demonstrates the versatility of High Profile’s reuse concept, taking leftover aluminium profiles – scrap elements produced in the manufacture of other luminaires – to create a new product.
- Year
- 2024
- Status
- Realised
- Themes
- Sustainability , NEXT , Interiors
In the original High Profile series, the design team decided to make a feature out of the difference between the way a luminaire is presented in a showroom and the less glamourous reality of how a luminaire is crafted and produced. A sustainable approach to production was the starting point; the designers wanted to work with recycled materials where possible. Profile lighting is a key part of architecture, but offcuts are often a residual product. These scrap components became the central element of the design.
The collection thus looks critically at the manufacturing process, finding not only opportunity, but also beauty in elements that are normally discarded as waste. The table further demonstrates the versatility of High Profile’s reuse concept, using the leftover aluminium profiles that are emblematic of the collection to create a new, different type of product.
In the new model, a dense cluster of raw, untreated components in white, black, grey, and gold form a low table configuration. At the same time, the table also inherits the functionality of the luminaires that preceded it: with a flip of a switch, lights hidden inside the structure illuminate the room with a gentle glow, highlighting the utilitarian beauty of the aluminium profiles in their various shapes.
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Credits
- Designer
- Founding partner in charge
- Design team
- Partners
- In collaboration with:
- Delta Light
- Photographs:
- © Pim Top