TULUM side table

designer: Reinier de Jong

This side table emerges from the immediate context of its location.

During construction activities in Tulum, large quantities of limestone are being drilled from the ground. Instead of considering this material as a residual product, it forms the starting point of the design here. The unworked stone serves as a load-bearing base.

The tabletop consists of a thin, matte black steel plate, connected to the stone by a slender metal tube. This intervention introduces a minimal but precise ordering between rough and controlled, mass and plane.

The shape of the table is not predetermined, but follows from the specific properties of the found stone. Dimensions, proportions, and position arise from what is present, not from what is imposed.

Each table is therefore a variation within the same principle: a system in which context, material, and intervention together define the final form.