The designer of the Flexform Tara table on where it came from, why concrete, and how a base made of two identical halves comes to look like a single carved stone.
Sebastian Herkner on Tara. Film by Flexform
The name comes from the Hill of Tara, the plateau in Ireland that was the seat of its ancient kings, where striking rock formations still stand today. Herkner took that image of stone rising from the ground and built the table around it.
He drew the family with meticulous attention to detail and a pursuit of understated elegance, setting out to preserve its artisanal value, its manufacturing traditions and its expressive materiality in a design that balances monumentality with lightness.
The base is concrete, two identical elements placed opposite one another, which together read as a monolith while lending the table both stability and an unexpected sense of airiness. Above it sits a back-painted glass top, so mineral solidity meets transparency at the edge. The result is a sculptural presence, minimal but sophisticated, and a table that shapes the room around it rather than simply filling it.
The family runs to dining tables and coffee tables, and an outdoor version made entirely of concrete. Tara is available to order through the store.
