French designer Christophe Delcourt's latest creation for Baxter celebrates the spectacular organic motifs of Grove marble. This material is distinguished by its complex layered colours: across its dense background of warm brown and ochre tones runs a network of fine dark veins, a pattern recalling tobacco leaves or ancient weathered tree trunks. The stone is also dotted with softly defined milky white and ivory areas, resembling lichen growing on branches, or a dusting of snow on a barren forest floor.
Named ‘Zaho’ (after the Arabic word for ‘splendour’, ‘brightness’, or ‘radiance’), the new table lets the eye-catching Grove marble shine thanks to its subtle construction, with legs that unfold like pages of a book. Each angle reveals a unique shape and marble pattern.
‘Assembled in a corolla shape, the panels form an architecture like a millefeuille, sometimes with sharp edges, sometimes with soft, rounded lines,’ write the collaborators. ‘A base like a building, as light as it is monumental.’
The table is brushed with waterproof protective oil to ensure it survives long dinner parties intact, and is also available in a range of other, paler stones, including White Travertino and Bianco Gioia marble.
Delcourt is well-versed in highlighting the beauty of natural materials through his furniture designs: among his previous works for the brand is the ‘Lana’ table series, which showcased a matte Wildflower beige marble from Sicily.
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