At Studio SL, design is never an isolated gesture. Every idea is developed in close collaboration with our workshop teams, drawing on decades of shared experience across material innovation, construction and finishing. Together, we explore how tradition can evolve and how form and function can be reimagined for today’s most discerning collectors.

What defines Studio SL is its ability to respond to the unexpected. Many of our most ambitious projects have been shaped by the questions our clients ask, questions that often require us to invent something entirely new. These external challenges have pushed us to expand our processes, rethink materials and build original solutions from the ground up.

One such project began with a simple concept: a breakfast table inspired by the interlocking geometry of fine jewellery. The resulting piece featured a sculptural base made of wenge wood and mirror-polished nickel, echoing the flowing forms found in high jewellery and contemporary sculpture. 

The tabletop, lacquered in vibrant layers of lava red, silver and charcoal black urushi, was bordered with mocha-toned wood and inlaid with reflective detailing. Elegant and meticulously resolved, the piece stood at the intersection of ornament and architecture.

In another commission, the design team was asked to create a large dining table that could adapt to gatherings of twelve, eighteen or twenty-four guests. The client’s country estate was home to four ancient oak trees, which became the symbolic and structural inspiration. 

The table was conceived in four modular sections, each supported by a tree-like pedestal base. These could be combined in different configurations while preserving the rhythm of the design and the integrity of a continuous double-helix pattern. Beneath its poetic surface, the table’s aluminium honeycomb structure offered strength and lightness, allowing it to move with ease across generations and spaces.