The Soort Coffee Table is less an object than an artifact of temporal inscription—a material meditation on duration, erosion, and the latent performativity of form. Suspended between solidity and flux, its multi-tiered structure resists the static condition of conventional furniture, instead proposing an architecture of sedimentation, where space is not occupied but accrued. It does not simply reference nature’s slow, geological choreography—it enacts it, embedding the longue durée of material transformation into an intimate, domestic scale. Here, functionality is not an opposition to contemplation but its extension. The table exists not merely to be used but to be inhabited as a condition of spatial thought. Its materiality—whether stone, wood, or composite—acts as both a haptic interface and an index of time, inviting the hand as much as the eye into a dialogue with presence, decay, and the perpetual becoming of form