The Afina Mother of Pearl Nesting Tables are the kind of pieces that make you want to touch them. Each tabletop is covered in hand-placed mother of pearl fragments set against a soft blue painted base, creating a shimmering, textured surface that shifts with the light. Cool and luminous one moment, warm and pearlescent the next. No photograph fully captures what these tables look like in person.
The inlay pattern has an organic, almost feathered quality, with each shell piece varying slightly in size, shape, and iridescence. That is the nature of the material. Mother of pearl is never uniform, and that is precisely what makes it beautiful. The work is painstaking and slow, laid piece by piece by hand, and the result is a surface that feels as considered as a piece of jewellery.
The iron frames are finished in a rich, brushed gold tone that pairs naturally with the cool shimmer of the shell. The lines are minimal and modern, with clean angles and a single cross-bar at the base for stability. The three tables graduate in size and nest together neatly when not in use.
Place them beside a sofa, use them as bedside surfaces, or spread them across a living room for texture and function. They suit contemporary interiors, glam spaces, and any room that appreciates fine materials done well.
Each piece is unique due to the organic nature of pearl shells
Each piece of the Mother of Pearl design is rearranged into the carved silhouette
Fine saw dust is used as filler under the design to eliminate cavities created by the pearl's irregularities which is then affixed onto a timber frame in a detailed pattern
After this, resin is filled around to craft the background