50 designers and artists reinvent Jasper Morrison's Plate table

Sculpture made in varnished resin. The mountains peaks incorporate the table’s legs while and perforate – ideally – the top.  

The light table by Jasper Morrison is turned into an imposing sculpture covered by ceramic tiles, and a disguised vase, with the same texture.

A concept that doesn’t change the classic function of a table, but modifies its perception through a rainbow spray action that starts from a leg and moves up to cover stripe after stripe the top.

A study a concept of a tablecloth as a mental space: a sort of canvas where, among classic elements such as a vase of flowers, a bottle of wine and two glasses, a person can project and imagine new and exciting realities.

A state of confusion: is it a lamp or a table? A pendant light or a table lamp? Through the unification of these two elements this object becomes a functional art product with a whole new identity.

A state of confusion: is it a lamp or a table? A pendant light or a table lamp? Through the unification of these two elements this object becomes a functional art product with a whole new identity.

The artist duo Louis Bachelot and Marjolaine Caron Bachelot trasdforms teh table in an historic piece, a witness of a major biblic event: Salomé carrying Giovanni Battista severed head, right after his decapitation.

Charles uses the Plate table as a base – covered in gold leaves – for a LED floor lamp made in opaline fabric mounted on a metal skeleton, that resembles an architecture. 

Celebration and concealment. And less is more. Christian Ghion tackles the Morrison icon reducing it to a mere upside down basement of an oval surface. Where he draws its own features in a comic style rendition. A sort of Stan Lee hero, flying away though space age fantastic dimensions.

Claire explores the imaginary cartography theme, identifying a new utopian landscape depicted in detail on a Plate table surface. Inspirations goes from blazons to ancient navigation charts; from typographic elements to medieval imaginary creatures.

The Morrison table as a blank space. Or better, like an architectural model; like the blueprint of a future monument. And inside the volume included between its legs here you are an organized space on multiple stories. With perfectly white surfaces, in the style of Le Corbusier and Mallet Stevens. 

A manifesto against illegal hunting and in favor of recycling. Done by putting a 1930s panther skin anchored under a Plate top, which has the surface completely covered by french and international symbols of fair trade and wilderness protection. 

Between Adolf Loos and Matisse, Élizabeth always preferred the last one. And in projecting her proposition for the La Source charity auction she covered a Plate table with her personal interpretation of the decorative scheme of the great master, who usually mixed different patterns with grace and exceptional colour sense. 

A fun interaction between the flat surface of the table and the pop peaks painted by Éric. More comprehensible in french language, where the game is between “plate” – flat – and “plateau” – tray –, as the designer says: “This is not a table basse plate but a plateau alpin pop”. 

An ode to the sensuality of the matter, to the minimalistic power shaken by the elegance, to the insolence joke. Through an irreverent gesture Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert gives to a Plate a sexual organ, in pink glass. A cavity that tickles the imagination or, in a more simplistic way, is just a spere place where to collect or hide objects.  

Guillaume separate the two fundamental elements of a table: the top and the legs. And by doing so he stretches the Plate till it looks like a storage unit, through a structure of wood strips. A solution that also turns it into a mini architecture, elementary but refined as well. 

It takes a small effort to the sculpture, designer and scenographer Hubert Le Gall for putting together a great idea. In this case, with the extensive experience in the art of decoration gathered throughout the years, he created a theatrical gesture, ironic and powerful at the same time: a skull made ion resin that bites a Plate leg. 

Éclipse is a way of celebrating the great affinity between design and craftsmanship. How? By adding the energies. Namely the ones of Midavaine telier, specialized in the traditional technique of lacquering, and of a contemporary design queen: India Mahdavi. 

It looks likes a project made for adults, but Sénéquier is for little children only. Even taught there is no small child in the picture, the little umbrella should leave with no doubts about it. Together with the fact that being a parasol, this striped Plate is an overtly outdoor piece of furniture. 

A somber project that enhances the minimal structure of the Plate. Transformed into a stool by substituting the top with an elegant woven leather seating place. That gracefully matches the colour green used to paint the legs. 

“I would have wanted to do an art object, one that looked like a hat, a dress, a beauty mask,” says Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. “But I ended up doing an upside down table: that becomes an easel for display other’s works of art”. 

The Morrison’s Plate as an object conquered by mother nature, with limestone forms that grabs the legs and raises them up toward the top. Something likely to occur after years spent under the influence of the weather, water and the action of microorganisms. 

Marianne transformed Plate into a game table. With a chessboard revolving surface in birch, exclusively for domestic checkers tournaments. Game pieces included. 

A collaboration between Marion Mailaender, design and architect from Marseilles, and the autorité fédératrice de la filière lin dans le monde – federation of the linen production chain in the world / CELC. Which the 80% of it in concentrated in France, Belgium and Netherlands. United to transform the Plate into a multi sprocket celebration of the fiber. 

Nathalie du Pasquier is a painter, and as such she painted onto the Plate surface, like with a canvas. Utilizing oil colours like she normally does. Turning the Plate legs into a support for a square painting, as if it was hung on a wall. 

Four upside down legs for four coffee cups to lay onto them between each sips, but if the cups have the same shape the coffee varieties are almost endless, the great French architect Odile says: café noir, café expresso, café crème, café noisette, café allongé, café serré. The important thing is to use mug only in black finish: “The best one”. 

From a minimal table to a flipper, but superchic. Because done by the artisans of atelier petit h / Hermès. Using all the materials and technical skills that belongs to the maison: from elements taken by the iconic Birkin and Kelly bags to the crystals used for the Saint Louis glass collections. 

A table like a Hollywood boulevard foot and handprints, where greats of the silver screen have their names forever cemented on the ground. An idea to be replicated if you think you are great as well, but still a surface to put things on. 

A mold of a cow jaw becomes the support of a Plate, which gives to the whole result a monstrous and funny look at the same time. And magically, with a striking resemblance to a classic Louis XV table. 

Since each of everyone of us operates thanks to electric light, Ingo Maurer and Axel Schmid put one under a Plate table. Leaving it pretty much the same. Yet, with the leg shadows spreading outside suddenly a striking object. Even more so because of the orange and blue rays, caused by colored strips applied to the table legs.