BEN STORM

The Belgian designer’s love for storytelling, contrasts and contradictions is evident in his

InHale collection, where he quite literally rests a massive marble block on a pillow. Only in this case, the pillow is not filled with duck feathers, but an inflated metal casing. Wanting to contrast lightness with mass, the collection features marble slabs weighing between 200 and 900 kilograms — all recovered from the waste of a local quarry that had been closed for over a century. The inflated table base was developed using a hydro-foaming technique wherein two pieces of metal sheet are welded together and injected with high-pressure air to create a ‘pillow’.