Oh, God...I think my eyes are bleeding.

I think I'd rather get a real vintage Brass tray table from a Flea Market or eBay.

Sort of hairy spidery.

I like it...reminds me a lot of a Chair available at Ralph Lauren home that I love...

I think it'd be nice to use the base and then find a vintage tray to put on it.

Truly hideous

i was just thinking it looked vaguely spidery too!! top is great but too much is going on with the legs.

not for me, but it reminds of a turned chair - http://codesmiths.com/dingbat/lj/20060716_wells/turned_chair.jpg

This table scares me

I dont understand why you ask the question!
Of course it's NOT !
What happened to the ikea team designers? .....

The odd support bars are what really mar this effort. I suppose they must be necessary to keep the thing stable, but I can't imagine there aren't better solutions that still constitute a low cost execution.

If I see one more piece of Swedish furniture I’m going to start throwing up reindeer antlers and blue and white checked gingham.

Too hard to dust!

if i found it on the street, i'd definitely take it home. would NEVER buy it though

i have mixed feelings. I agree the support bars ruin the look but its sort of an interesting piece especially from them...

theres too much going on here.... and i think its out of place compared to the rest of the trollsta collection.

Ugh. It's horrible!

that thing gives me chills.

Two questions come to mind:

1. Why?

2. Can I have some of what the designers were smoking?

I'm all for creativity, but not every new idea is a good one...

I noticed this table today in an Ikea email. I really did a double-take! I thought that it was awkward and odd ... It is funny that it showed up here!

I think it's really an interesting piece from a store that makes such (sometimes mind-numbingly) simple everything else. It's not my favorite, but I like it, and I applaud them doing something truly different.

"my eyes are bleeding." AAAHHAAAHA. Now I know why I keep coming back to this website.

its definitely different, but not my taste =(

I don't like it at all. But at least they are trying different things. I have never been the biggest IKEA fan, to me they are less "simple" and more "boring". Maybe this is the start of something new.

The first thing i thought of when i saw this was When Harry Met Sally...(even though above pic is not wagon wheel furniture...i still think it's hideous)

Harry: Cause someday, believe it or not, you'll go 15 rounds over who's gonna get this coffee table. This stupid, wagon-wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale COFFEE TABLE!

Jess: I thought you said you liked it!

Harry: I WAS BEING NICE!!!

sex toys tray = Swedish design?

Ikea should stick with what Ikea does best. Venturing off into "traditional" looks leads to horrid mis-haps like this. I envision a wrecked spindle chair, a wire clothes hanger and an inventor on a dark night in Ikea's third basement........{shudder}

I think it could possibly look good with plainer legs. Either keep the funky crossbars, or the traditional legs (on a non-collapsible design), but not both. And yeah, fewer legs.

i like it. :)

This reminds me of one of those christmas trees that unfold like an umbrella, what a nightmare. I am usually an Ikea fan, this is just wrong. Bad move Ikea. JMO

While I like liked th blending of modern and traditional in last year's TROLLSTA designs, this is too much.

However, I'm with whytephoenix and say that the cross braces are intriguing and a similar design with plain legs could work

It looks cluttered and unresolved as an object. Trying too hard for a vintage look, is my guess.

It's pretty awful, and the high price tag just adds insult to injury.

In the words of Howard Roark: "That is an atrocious fireplace"

I'm going to go ahead and say not. It looks like a plate with spider-leg-like projections...definitely not cute.

since this post I took time to do my own selection..and finally I dont like lot of ikea products...

see my own selection >

http://madamebidule.blogspot.com/2008/11/ma-slection-dco-chez-ika.html

what a bunch of follow-the-leader comments.

i truly find it hard to believe that this many people hate this table.

V. belatedly, I saw a craigslisting for a vintage/antique tray table that looked v. much like this, so 1) they weren't being that creative, they had something specific in mind and 2) they weren't being that insane, they had something specific in mind.