A piece of solid-oak furniture designed around the golden ratio.
A multi-purpose piece of furniture crafted from solid oak, shaped like a five-petalled flower and proportioned entirely through the golden ratio. TaBasket functions as both basket and table, with a detachable top surface — built on the belief that mathematics can become something natural, warm, and lived-in.
Conceptual Origin
TaBasket began as an attempt to test whether a piece of furniture could be useful, mathematical, and natural in form without any of the three reading as decorative. The brief was self-imposed: design a single object that operates as both basket and table, drawn from the proportional logic of the golden ratio — a relationship long borrowed by architecture and product design for its quiet legibility to the eye.
Geometric Construction
The silhouette was derived from a pentagon, scaled and segmented through the golden ratio until the shape settled into a five-petalled flower. The detachable top surface was sized to complete the proportion when set in place, and to reveal the petal structure when lifted away. Every measurement in the object follows the same single relationship.
Material Process
Solid oak was chosen for its warmth and weight — heavy enough to feel grounded as a table, but warm enough to invite touch as a basket. Each panel was cut, sanded, and finished by hand. The joinery is exposed; no fastener is hidden. The piece is finished only where the hand will rest.
Final Form
In use, TaBasket holds objects when open and supports them when closed. The detachable surface allows the piece to switch function without changing language. The mathematics does not perform — it sits underneath, holding the form.
