10/04/2026
Lacing Table by ShapeUs Studio
How to pursue vernacular aesthetic with contemporary fabrication?
The design language comes from colonial, indochine aesthetic; but also a simple everyday object, coming from our memories growing up in Saigon in the 80s and 90s : a classic wooden table with lace cloth on a summer day.
Everything becomes streamlined and simplified with modern life. The old and traditional traits in our everyday life are left behind, slowly fading into memories. We seek to preserve these invaluable design language and ornaments, not by replicating the past, but by a new way of making.
Folding steel plates form structural table legs. Indochine curvature and lacing transparency are translated into laser cut patterns. Table legs and top come in parts for ease of packing; and ease to assembly at home.
Timeless - a value is pursuited not as something preserved or heritage, but as something used and lived with every day.
