Concrete TV Stand is a minimalist stand created by Switzerland-based architect David Bard of BARD YERSIN architectes. A sleek television hovers above what appears to be a chunk of lunar landscape, a “meteorite” of concrete that anchors the technological to the primordial. This juxtaposition stops you in your tracks, forcing a reconsideration of what we’ve come to expect from the furniture that houses our screens.

The concrete base reveals itself upon closer inspection as a carefully orchestrated material experiment. Natural wood grain textures imprinted into the concrete speak to a process of negative impression—nature’s pattern captured in an industrial medium. Polished expanded clay beads emerge from the surface like fossilized air bubbles, creating a topography that feels both alien and eerily familiar.

This frame does not merely support a television; it transforms it into part of a larger sculptural composition. The asymmetry at play here challenges the traditional center-weighted stability we expect from media furniture, which has historically privileged balanced proportions dating back to radio consoles of the mid-20th century.

The metal frame that connects these elements—technological and geological—serves as both functional necessity and visual counterpoint. Its slender profile creates a moment of tension, a breath between materials that allows each to maintain its integrity while participating in dialogue.

This design speaks to our contemporary moment, where the boundaries between technology and environment are increasingly blurred. As our screens become thinner, more ethereal, perhaps we crave the counterbalance of something emphatically physical, something with weight and presence that reminds us of our material reality.