A hefty, celebratory, coffee-table slab of a book, packed with stats and pictures like a book about sport.
Along with designing all the space, Mr. Ranalli can take credit for much of the furniture, notably the dining room table, a slab of Italian verde antico marble atop a base of welded steel that came from a Bronx auto body shop.
The show includes a convex mirror with a swirling bronze frame ($19,153), below, and a lacquered console table of slabs unevenly stacked on cast-bronze beams ($61,403).
The couple love to find creative uses for castoffs from job sites, and each of them has dragged home treasures like thick butcher-block counters, the ceiling beams that now form a garden table and slabs of white marble.
After the strand is cut on the run-out table, the slabs are directly heated in-line in a long tunnel furnace or by induction coils and then fed, also in-line, directly into the finishing train of a hot-strip mill.
From Table 8, Slabs strengthened with CFRP sheets along the cutout edges (90°) give results higher than the cases where CFRP sheets are inclined by 45° with respect to the cutout corners.
Their foraged dishes might contain upwards of 20 plants and herbs, and they're sent to your table on slabs of slate, miniature rock slides, primordial wood shapes and thrown glass instead of plates.
At $11, it is by far the most expensive appetizer, although it resembles a plate that many Iranian restaurants put out on the table free — slabs of milky feta, stacked like bricks in an ancient wall, fragrant heaps of mint and purple basil, and crisp wedges of raw onion mild enough to eat like an apple.
Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: there's an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring).
His handiwork includes an arty, rough-hewn three-layer buckeye slab table and a polished cocobolo slab table with dark wood and blond highlights (each for $850).
In futuristic booths along the side of the room, the tables are slabs of translucent lime-green acrylic.
