Designed in 1959 by Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti for their renovation of Villa Schwob — Le Corbusier's last work in his native La Chaux-de-Fonds — the table was produced in a handful of pieces for that specific space and never entered production. The commission placed the two architects in dialogue with one of the defining buildings of early twentieth-century architecture, and the table carries that context: a precisely machined aluminium cross with expressed mechanical joints supports a marble top that rests in place through its own weight.