A couch and a table with bottles of wine on it.
Beppe Brancato

Sklo Debuts An Entirely New Product Category

The NorCal-based Czech-glass company debuts a new product category: tables. The inaugural designs juxtapose sturdiness and fragility to manifest something quite special. Field clusters flat-top cylinders—in frosted glass or one of three transparent tints—on brushed-brass legs to form side or coffee tables that resemble stately organ pipes. “Small units are grouped to create large compositions—a modular language like the notes in a musical score,” explains Karen Gilbert, who cofounded SkLO with Pavel Hanousek and Paul Pavlak. Gravity alone secures Join’s doorknob-like hand-blown top onto its Carrara marble base, rendering the conical form visible through tinted glass.

A couch and a table with bottles of wine on it.
Photography by Beppe Brancato.
A gold and black glass side table with three small round tables.
Photography by Tereza Valner.
Two small stools with marble bases and gold bases.
Join. Photography by Tereza Valner.
A close up of a table with a glass vase.
Field. Photography by Tereza Valner.
A man in a black shirt.
Pavel Hanousek, Paul Pavlak, Karen Gilbert. Photography courtesy of SkLO.

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