Laurent Corio is a product designer working in Paris, and asks “what have you done with Grandma’s table?” He has taken a piece of furniture deemed “old & boring” and created a new, updated piece that is “fresh & useful.” With a bit of tenacity and some power tools, this could be an amazing DIY project for that old furniture gathering dust in the garage…
By splitting each leg of the old table and reconstructing them into a sawhorse-type structure, Corio has given this old piece a new life. This simple design gives us all sorts of ideas of what could be done with older furniture.
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Comments (11)
^^huh? what is impractical about this? and who brought up needing a larger tabletop or the practicality of the piece anyway?
I just can't get the image out of my head that the piece of glass is on those sawhorse legs to be cut, not to be a functional table.
I think the "old & boring" and "fresh & useful" labels are from the designer and are more than likely just a marketing tool.
It's not necessarily true but in order to sell him object, he chose to use the advertising technique of saying that the former product was defunct.
I like the new table but am not sure I would ever both doing a DIY version of it in my own place.
It's a good reuse of 70s and 80's crappy neo-everything, 40's neo-Edwardian and nastily overstuffed and overdesigned late Victorian, but if he starts cutting up pretty little gothic tables I'm coming for him!
That "fresh and useful" table is far from useful, but it is "fresh". When I look at it I see the naked behinds of women standing with their legs apart. Am I the only one? I wonder whether this little joke was intended.
I think they're cute.
This is so much cooler than just painting and old table white (or red, or whatever). I would love to see the contrast of an old painted or stained finish on the outside of the turned legs against the woodgrain newly exposed by splitting in two.
Forestdweller: naked behinds of ballerinas, en pointe.
Littleinkpot: pervert. : )
To me, they also look a little like dismembered horse.deer legs.... so I guess this Rorshach (sp?) test of a table may indicate that I'm a bit odd, too.
Yeah, ljbmonkey, the feet do look like hooves, which is disturbing. But I'm definitely getting the feeling of "bare bottom" at the top. And that opening at the bottom of the bottom is the shape ususally used for depicting...well, you see what I mean? I think that it must have been the intention of the designer.
When I first saw these I instantly thought "creepy" but couldn't quite figure out why that was my gut reaction. But after reading ljbmonkey's comment I now know - "ballerinas en pointe" and hacked off at the waist! I was a ballerina for years - no wonder they gave me the heebie jeebies.
Clever... but creepy. Though it would be fun to see what kind of reactions your friends would have upon seeing it- instant Id, anyone?