The aim for Troels Grum-Schwensen starting the design-process of “Attach”, was to create an industrial manufactured table-system with the ability to be easily adapted to any architectural room, in terms of size and shape in order to create rooms with pleasant and optimized balancing of object-volume contra empty space.

One product; Industrial, but easy to customize, by centimeter, in width, length and shape.

ATTACH fulfills this goal and, at the same time, the new-thought, ingenious leg-mounting-principle allows optional longitudinal positioning of the table-leg, which can be clicked on the apron anywhere wanted, by hand only, using no tools. When the table stands, gravity stabilizes the construction.

Furthermore, the strong aluminum-beams offers up to 3metres of free span between legs.

But the designer; Troels Grum-Schwensen, didn´t stop here.

Where most strong structures in earlier table-system are to be hidden underneath the table-top, Troels Grum-Schwensen found it necessary to define and develop a brand-new aesthetic for ATTACH, not only allowing the structure to be placed visible, close to the tabletops short-side, but even to make it a graphical, aesthetic contribution to the whole furniture.

He spent hours, months, and years to develop and carefully adjust the significant interplay between the triangular hollowness of the beam and the triangular hollowness of the leg. Making the parts work together in a strong and clear graphical unity.

At this point a critical view on aesthetical common-thinking leads to a tight relationship between new-thought beauty, innovative construction utilizing gravity and functionality, as the triangular hollowness, clearly and readable, serves both constructive purposes and optimizes function. E.g: the hollowness in the leg makes a natural grip for the hand when the leg is to be attached or detached from the beam.

All together the thorough taking care about aesthetic, function and physics, as a tightly connected unity, is what gives this piece its iconic quality.

As Troels Grum-Schwensen states; “It´s an obligation for a designer, not to accept habits in aesthetical approaches, but always aim to re-new ways to consider aesthetic problems. It all starts and ends with beauty – but not necessarily in the way it is commonly seen. We have to push perception of minds progressively forwards. Aesthetics can be so much more than established convention.”.