Description
T14 Plint is designed by Cecilie Manz, and is a crafted wooden rectangular piece with vegetable-tanned leather hinges and is simple to assemble by the user. Plint is a versatile piece of furniture with the size and shape to cater for several occasions in any room of your home etiher as a coffee table in front of your sofa, as a side table against the wall or beneath a window, as a bench in the entrance for putting on your shoes, or merely as a platform for books and papers. Cecilie Manz’s ingenious solution reduces the entire furniture to just two components: tabletop and apron. The top and side pieces are cut from a single, flawless piece of wood, which is hand selected and cut precisely from timber logs to create the desired surface texture and grain. The finished planks are then machined to ensure the highest possible degree of precision before the leather components are fixed into place. This allows it to be shipped in a narrow, completely flat package, and to be delightfully assembled with ease: no need for glue, bolts or screws. Plint is made using high-quality hides produced using a chrome-free tanning process. The leather is sourced from the small Swedish tannery Tärnsjö Garveri, one of the few tanning houses which still practises environmentally conscious vegetable tanning (using bark extracts) as opposed to the time-efficient but more polluting chrome-based technique popular with many furniture manufacturers. The top of the furniture is attached to the legs with leather hinges. The apron is fitted with a leather loop that is fed through an aperture in the supports and fixed in place with an octagonal wedge. The wedge connection – a mechanism reminiscent of the ‘pegged stretcher’ joinery method sometimes found in traditional dining tables – is finely crafted to ensure the connection is secure and the assembled structure is stable and robust.
