Console table DOZIE KANU Manganese KNOLL

There are parts that we choose to complete an interior, and others that we choose to define it. Dozie Kanu’s console for Knoll definitely belongs to the second category. With its steel rods, its taut leather tray and its suspended fringes that move imperceptibly to the rhythm of the life around it, it introduces into space something immediately singular, a presence that is both structured and lively, mineral and sensual, which captures the gaze without trying to hold it back by force. The console format gives it a particularly accurate frontal and narrative dimension: placed in an entrance, it is the first thing you see and the last one you forget; running along a living room wall, it creates this low horizon line around which the entire composition can be articulated; in a hotel context or a reception area, it signals with remarkable economy of means that we are dealing with an interior that has something to say. The dark, matt manganese colour accentuates the contrast between the rigour of steel and the suppleness of leather, and harmonises with natural ease with the noble materials surrounding it: dark wood, stone, burnished brass and grain-treated textiles. A room for interiors that have the courage of their convictions.