Pastis Dining Table is designed by Julien Renault for HAY — a dining table whose name evokes the informal, convivial spirit of French café culture while its formal character reflects Renault's interest in furniture that is visually light and spatially generous without sacrificing structural integrity or design quality. The Pastis is characterised by a distinctive leg construction that gives the design a confident visual identity while maintaining the practical proportions and surface area required for comfortable everyday dining use across different interior settings and dining group sizes.

Julien Renault's design work combines formal precision with a sensitivity to how furniture occupies and defines the space around it. The Pastis expresses these qualities in a dining table format that is resolved and characterful without being visually dominant — a table that enhances the dining experience and the spatial quality of the room it occupies rather than imposing itself visually on the overall composition. The Pastis's availability in different sizes and finish options appropriate to different dining configurations and interior directions gives it a flexibility that makes it suitable from residential kitchen settings to hospitality environments where the café-culture spirit of the name is directly and appropriately relevant.

The Pastis Dining Table is well suited to residential dining rooms and kitchen settings where a dining table of informal character, clean formal quality, and French design sensibility is required. Its name's café culture reference and its convivial proportions make it equally appropriate for hospitality dining environments, restaurant settings, and any space where the furniture's character supports a relaxed, social approach to dining rather than a formal or ceremonial one.

Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.