DESIGN NAME: Meadow
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Coffee Table
INSPIRATION: This coffee table is a piece of nature in home. It is poetic on the outside with its stylized look of the meadow, just like on the other side of the window. On the inside it is functional- the big flat surface folds up to enable work with computer / eating and hides inside the most precious reading that can be ordered in a second..
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The whole table is made of massive oak, with minimalistic shape. Just the surface gets a fine pattern of wheat plants, drawn in basic shapes. The cassette with precious inside is heavy, thus supported with U shaped legs that bent towards outside, tinted darker, as a reminiscence of earth, metal.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: It is a rather large coffee table with eye-catching pattern, with entire top surface that can be lifted and thus transforms itself to a working table or a dining table. The height the table and its mechanism is carefully selected to respond to this extra functions. A big storage inside store many items, that are used occasionally (magazines, computer, books etc)
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in Kranj, Slovenia in October 2017 and finnished in march 2018.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Cnc cut, hand polished, solid oakwood. Oiled with natural oils and dark tinted legs. Waxed. Locally harvested Slovene wood.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 100/70 cm, height 42 cm when closed, 63 cm when lifted up; height of storage space: 20 cm.
TAGS: cooffee table, side table, lifting table, living room furniture, design living room, real wood table
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: We had to carry out a research of the everyday tasks the client would use this table for, as it needed to be multifunctional due to small size of his living space. In closed form the table has a standard height, but when in working/ eating function it has to lift up considerably, taking as a reference the height of client's sofa to enable comfortable sitting and working (open height 63 cm).
CHALLENGE: The challenge was to design the right proportion of both heights necessary for the full functionality of the table. The 2nd one was to once determined the needed heights to find the right technical mechanism.
ADDED DATE: 2018-09-27 13:28:16
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Eva Å trukelj and Ignacio Lopez Sola
IMAGE CREDITS: Eva Strukelj
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