Dezeen promotion: Stockholm-based furniture brand Hem takes people behind the scenes of how London designer Max Lamb made his "deceivingly sophisticated" Max Table.
Labelled by Hem as the brand's "functional hero", the Max Table measures at three metres long ? or 118 inches ? and was initially crafted from lengths of Douglas fir wood.
More recent iterations of the table have been made from white pigmented ash wood, which is sourced locally and provides even more durability than its Douglas fir predecessor.
Lamb also designed a matching bench to accompany the table, which follows a similar production process.
The designs were realised in a small family-run workshop on an industrial estate on the outskirts of Padua ? a city in the northeast of Italy ? that combines advanced manufacturing methods with traditional craft.
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