One of my favorite modern furniture designers is downtown LA’s Steelogic, a company which regularly employs stainless steel and anodized aluminum in its designs. Their name naturally connotes cold and rational thought – and their minimalist bent (engineering pun, take cover!) would certainly embrace that description.

It is therefore a pleasant surprise that many of its pieces manage to stir up powerful emotions; from the smoothly undulating lines of the Wave Dish ($228) and Radius End Table ($1789) to the nitty gritty urban feel of Magrak A ($155), Steelogic’s innovative yet fundamental approach to metal shaping inevitably places its furniture at the spiritual locus of any room (or conversation contained therein). As if its stylistic strengths weren’t enough, the company is also ecologically warm and fuzzy (not exactly the terminology you’d apply to steel adherents) — all of its steel products utilize 85% scrap metal.

My favorite Steelogic products are the Planks Table ($7,031), Planks Bench ($2,482) and the Low Coffee Table ($2,331) all three of which constantly play up perpendicularly-oriented shapes in what I think amounts to a geometrician’s wet dream. The trio and its other shiny siblings could likely be rebuilt using wood constituents, but it is with metal and its intrinsic sheen that many of Steelogic’s pieces manage to transcend functionality and take on a sculptural beauty.
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