Iwamoto’s low table represents a tree’s growing process. The Tokyo-based designer researched traditional Japanese techniques such as uzukuri, which gives wood texture by scrubbing, and chouna, where the material’s surface is chiselled with an adze, before deciding to peel its layers to create a new veneer. These textured panels became the lodestar for his round table, which he describes as ‘a representation of an ancient tree trunk and nature. The idea is that the surface is out of control’.