When Satyendra Pakhalé was invited to visit the FIAM pioneering manufacturing plant near Pesaro, Italy, "It felt like being in the aerospace industry, where passionate people in thermal protective aprons with great skills and techniques were forming, engineering and making objects out of industrial glass using high-temperature furnaces," shares Pakhalé. Glass is a magical material with futuristic associations and characteristics such as transparency, hardness and structural strength. These allowed Pakhalé to create a table with only two supporting pivots, without compromising its stability. Kayo’s main plane on bent glass legs and its extensible parts are connected by a compact mechanism that works effortlessly with a single knob, extending the table from a two- to an impressive three-metre span. "It was a real challenge to create a new compact mechanism and the seemingly obvious bent glass legs. They required three years of rigorous design and product development work I recalled Hannah Arendt mentioning a table in The Human Condition (1958), in which she wrote, “The table brings everything and everybody together in a spirit of gratitude. It creates possibilities and inspires whilst remaining itself, as it were, invisible .” An invisible table that is elegant and magical – literally unseen – is what I wanted to create. It could be achieved with FIAM’s pioneering bent glass technology," shares Pakhalé.