Life Imitates Art
An Iconic Porada Dining Table Mirrors Bernar Venet’s Signature “Indeterminate Lines” Series
Discover how life imitates art in unexpected moments of visual synchronicity
For its Infinity dining table, Italian design house Porada topped a spellbinding base of intertwined loops of carved solid Canaletto walnut with a painterly disk of dark marble.
For his signature “Indeterminate Lines” series, which he introduced in 1979, French conceptual artist Bernar Venet fashions industrial steel into monumental curved rolls that celebrate notions of chance and unpredictability over strict order.
A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2026 Late Fall Issue in the section “Life Imitates Art.” Subscribe to the magazine.