Side Table DOZIE KANU Manganèse KNOLL

Designed by Dozie Kanu for Knoll as the most intimate counterpart of her signature coffee table, the Manganèse side table shares with her the same radical and sensual vision of furniture: that of an object that is not content to be useful, but that exists, that stands out, which provokes something in those who work with it every day. Steel rods, stretched leather tabletop, and hanging fringes here make up an immediately recognizable formal vocabulary, collected in a more discreet format that does not lose its evocative power, on the contrary, the proximity imposed by this auxiliary format makes the dialogue with the material even more direct, even more physical. The manganese color anchors the piece in a dark and assertive palette that accords with remarkable freedom to the most varied compositions: natural leather, deep velvet, walnut wood or veined marble, it always finds the right register without ever disappearing into the decor. Slipped next to a reading armchair, placed on a sofa or associated with the coffee table of the collection to create an ensemble with assumed coherence, she brings to each configuration this element of character that distinguishes a truly thought-out interior from a simple assembly of beautiful objects. A piece for those who know that it is often the most modest formats that best reveal a designer’s vision.