The popularity of standing desks has skyrocketed during the past year as people were forced to convert living spaces into home offices. While the selection of standing desks available is numerous, the category suffers from a selection of indistinguishable utilitarian designs – perfectly serviceable forms when set in a dedicated home office, but not always harmonious when placed within a dining room or living room. San Francisco-based Otelier’s debut collection aims to modernize adaptable work surfaces with a decidedly modernist perspective designed to blend into the home environment.

Founded in 2020 by multi-disciplinary designer Yvonne Hung – a graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Royal College of Art – Otelier’s selection of height-adjustable tables presents the antithesis of tech-forward standing desks, offering work surfaces characterized by its founder as “ergonomic, but also appropriate for the home.”