Sister Table is an unassuming, utilitarian coffee table that takes cues from a stone sink in the Sister's Diary at Hancock Shaker Village, a 19th century American utopian community. A group of international designers was invited to visit the archives and study Shaker household objects.

Sister Table was originally designed for Furnishing Utopia, an influential exhibition of objects inspired by that visit to the archives. The exhibition received numerous awards and travelled from New York to Stockholm.

Sister Table has friendly rounded corners, a handy carrying handle, and a lip around the edge that holds everything neatly in place.

Studio Tolvanen is the product design office of husband-and-wife team Mika & Julie Tolvanen. Projects range from small everyday objects to furniture collections, which they design from their studio and workshop on the island of Lauttasaari in Helsinki, Finland. Mika is a Finnish designer who started his own practice after graduating from Royal College of Art in 2001. Julie is an American designer who worked for about 10 years as a woodworker, designing and building furniture, before she moved to Finland in 2009 to get her masters degree in furniture design. Mika and Julie founded Studio Tolvanen together in 2015.


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