The Octahedron is the only Platonic Solid that can be bent out of a continuous piece of wire. Over the years we used this eight-sided structure as a base for tables, benches, and stools. 

The top of this dining table is made out of an almost one hundred year old tree from the region I grew up in Switzerland. The same sixty degree angle of the bent base wire is used to cut the tree. This diagonal cut trough the ten foot long cylinder-like trunk generates nine elliptical slabs with a one-to-two proportion. 

While the metal base represents an infinite form, the piece of wood presents just the opposite; revealing a map of history and finite time through its lines of tension and the annual rings. This object creates an elegant juxtaposition between an infinite geometry and a finite history.