PK61 Coffee Table

Designed by Poul Kjærholm

The coffee table PK61 is almost as elementary and minimalistic as it gets from the hand of Poul Kjaerholm. Despite the extreme distillation of the structure into a set of identical elements, the square and aesthetic design has the power of a manifesto and shows Kjaerholm’s development from industrial designer to furniture architect. The four base elements are joined with machine screws that lend the table part of its unique look. The removable tabletop demonstrates Kjaerholm’s recurring principle of using gravity to keep the elements in place. Read more