A Paris studio called UNVEIL made a meeting table for their own office out of 12mm solid aluminum. The top is brushed flat, the kind of surface that reflects nothing. Underneath, hidden in the gap between the two panels, is a bas-relief fresco — classical faces half-submerged, bodies dissolving into cloud and wave, horses emerging from the chaos like something off a Greek frieze. Cast in the same metal as the table above it, you’d miss it entirely if you weren’t looking.

The fresco was generated by AI and physically forged, which is either the most interesting thing about it or the most troubling. UNVEIL calls objects like this “image-objects” — things that don’t fully exist until they have weight. This one unfolds in four parts across the table’s length, and lives in a meeting room in the 9th arrondissement.