On the occasion of the 2013 edition of Maison & Objet, Parisian gallery Lieu du Design proposed Meet My Project, a collective exhibition featuring the work of several young designers. Among them, Swiss studio Allegory presented Totems, a collection of tables combining elements in stone, metal and wood that can be configured in multiple ways.

The collection of modular tables seeks to be an exercise in "adaptive furniture", at a time when spaces need to meet diverse spatial and functional needs, and furniture should adapt to flexible environments. The system is composed of three elements: carrara stackable marble stools, which allow to define different table heights; several diameters of veneered oak plates, defining diverse table-radius; and pushed and anodised aluminium accessories, inserted in the centre of the wood plates, specifying each table's function and holding the different elements together.

"The materials and their properties define a time/space relation based on architectural principles," state Allegory. "The accessory can easily be changed on a daily basis, the lamp can be replaced by the vase, and thus to easliy evolve from a desk to dinner table." Totems can yield a stool, a side table, a night table, a coffee table large or small, a dinner table, a column, and many other typologies left to the imagination of the user.