The Boa table by Stefan Diez for Hay
In 2015, Stefan Diez made for Japan Creative – an initiative aimed at promoting Japanese craft techniques thanks to design - a table base in bamboo stems that can be assembled without tools thanks to special strings. The idea of Soba, this is the name of the concept, was to create an element (to be delivered flat-pack to save costs in logistics) capable of accommodating any top.
“It never became a product,” Stefan Diez told us during the launch of Boa at the Hay showroom on the occasion of 3daysofdesign. “The bamboo deteriorated, it didn't work. However, the idea remained absolutely valid.
From that idea, in fact, the Boa Table for Hay was born, which it is its industrial transposition.
It is a conference table of variable length from 280 to 450 cm with a very light tubular frame but with a large diameter (such as that of the bamboo canes) made of Hydro CIRCAL aluminum, (made from 75% recycled post-consumer waste), extruded in Denmark using renewable energy.
The tubes - which are delivered flat-pack - are assembled by clicking one inside the other, forming a perch: which contains all the cable management and is able to accommodate any type of slowly.
The sustainability of the concept is concentrated in this detail as well.
“The idea is that Hay sells the base and then, wherever you are in the world, you put a locally sourced or locally made top on it,” explains Stefan Diez. The shipping of the top - especially for tables of this size - is in fact an important detail to keep in mind in terms of environmental impact.