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Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners
Tabhole, ZO-loft architecture & design | International Design Awards Winners

Tabhole

CompanyZO-loft architecture & design
Lead Designers
ClientPaolo Emilio Bellisario
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
Project LinkView
Entry Description

As children, many of us have created a refuge under the
home’s table: a secret hiding place where making up stories
full of fantasy and fairy characters. Tabhole was born in the
wake of this childhood’s habit, as a table designed to
increase the versatility of the top and give surplus value to
the usually unused intrados of the table. The goal is to
create new relationships between "above" and "below" of
the table, between the adult world "above" and the world of
children "underneath" to let the parents to revive the
memories of the past and give children a space around
them
to live as they wish. Thanks to 5 circular holes (30 and 12
cm in diameter) cutted on the table “special desin bags” are
accommodate. While , on one hand, adults can simply use
the bags for storing and the holes to pass laptop cables
while working at home, on the other hand, under the table,
pockets create a colourful microcosm to entertain kids, a
landscape built for gravity with puppets and “traps” for
magic tricks, where to play or watch the adult’s world from
a window opened in the roof of his secret bolt-hole. The
puppets are located at the edge of the top to be used to
entertain the kids during the “jelly” too. Filling the holes with
potted plants or small shrubs there is also a “green”
alternative: to use Tabhle to create a small “house
undergrowth” where having a picnic all togheter.
It is probably remarkable to underline the fact that Tabhole
born thanks to the collaboration and interaction of four
artisans : a carpenter, a blacksmith, a tailor and an
upholsterer. Just the mix of these skills is certainly an
additional and precious value to the project.