Her name is… Medulla.
The new table of the Council of Ministers was presented Wednesday at the Elysee to Emmanuel Macron.
13.40 meters, "both beautiful and functional", according to the Head of State, it was used for the first time in the morning on the occasion of the traditional Council of Ministers on Wednesday morning in the Murat lounge.
Until then, the Council of Ministers table had never been designed by designers: purely functional and dismantled each week, it was made up of planks placed on trestles and covered with "a terrible felt", according to the president.
Light-coloured, the Medulla table ("marrow" in Latin) is made up of 20 rectangular extensions that fit together, allowing its length to be adapted to the number of participants in the meeting.
According to its designers, it was designed "like an assembly of vertebrae", modules covered with floated concrete that can be assembled and disassembled quickly and then transported in the lifts of the Élysée.
Eleven craft businesses, based in several regions, participated in its manufacture.
The Elysée is modernized
Its four student designers, graduates of the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts (Ensaama), were selected following a competition launched in 2019 by the Mobilier national and open to students from five establishments. offering design training.
Inaugurated as Heritage Days approach this weekend, this equipment marks a new stage in the modernization of the Élysée Palace launched by the Macron couple since 2017 and marked in particular by the renovation of the village hall.
The Élysée is “a place that we are constantly trying to reinvent” by relying “on French know-how”, summed up Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State took advantage of this event to launch a "call for the mobilization" of "artists and creators" so that they are "forces of proposal and training" to allow France to get out of the current difficult period, marked by "a kind of gloom".