Jindřich Halabala's famous 'Spider table'

The Spider Table by Jindřich Halabala is an iconic piece of Czech modernist design from the 1930s. Halabala, a leading figure in Czechoslovakia’s functionalist movement, designed this table for UP Závody, a major furniture manufacturer of the time.

Jindřich Halabala was a Czech designer and architect who played a major role in the development of modern furniture design in the 1930s and 1940s. As the chief designer of the UP Brno furniture factory, he shaped the transition from handcrafted production to industrial manufacturing, without compromising on functionality and elegance.