A nail-built okoumé plywood table reinterpreting Enzo Mari's truss-table design.
A year after the Fradeo table, we returned to Enzo Mari’s work with a new tribute: a table designed for the Ferrando family in Turin, for their beautiful home by Errante Architettura and Elastico Farm. The project takes its cue from the iconic truss table of Mari’s Autoprogettazione series.
Rather than a replica, it is a reinterpretation of its constructive principles, adapted to a different context and new functional requirements, in the spirit of the approach Mari himself encouraged in his manual.
Compared to Mari’s original archetype, the geometry of the legs has been inverted and tilted to create a buttress-like configuration that stiffens the structure and minimizes vibrations across a 3.10 × 1.10 m tabletop.
As in Mari’s constructive tradition, the whole table is assembled exclusively with nails, allowing the logic of construction and the material itself to determine its final form.
The entire table is cut from a single 3.10 × 1.80 m sheet of okoumé plywood, from which all the components of the top, legs, and central spine are obtained. The design stems from the idea of using the material in the most essential way possible, reducing waste and conceiving the table as a unified system.
Studio GISTO
Alessandro Mason
Alice Fialà
Aljoša Marković
Aljoša Marković
Aljoša Marković
Marco Ciacci